Gary Cass attacks without facts. Paranoid screed published in North County Times

The North County Times continues the attack on Vista Unified school teachers. Today they published an attack on school teachers. This one was written by Gary Cass apparently the Gibson Group has been 'talking among themselves.' Whenever they do they turn their most paranoid fears into gibson group "fact". This process allows them to hate and still feel good about themselves.

Read the Cass crazy rant here:

http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/forum-labor-bosses-run-vista-school-district/article_a34db6e3-bafc-54c3-ba8a-fd5c8c9c8b0c.html

Below the three most inflammatory false charges highlighted in red:

Cass accuses teachers in VUSD of malfeasance and corrupt practices when he writes:

"Now the labor union bosses, who had been using the kids' reading money for their friends"

Where is his evidence? Why doesn't he take these charges to the district attorney? If his charges were true, then folks should go to jail.

But then we all know why he didn't. Cass is just making stuff up.

Sadly he has been allowed to get it published in the newspaper. Why?


"Union officials have in the past complained to the board that they wanted to give teachers a raise with the money required by law for reading improvement."

This is simply not true. Cass provides no evidence to back up this smear. It does not even pass the smell test. Where is the name of the person who asked for this? When did this happen? At what meeting?

There are minutes taken at EVERY meeting of any importance in the district, including school board meetings. Board meeting minutes are published on line. Yet Cass cannot reference any meeting or any speech or any person? He writes it, so we are to believe it's true? Really?

Without any evidence of any kind the North County Times publishes such an incendiary charge?

Remember when newspapers had standards?

Next paranoid raving:

"Because teachers get more pay when kids are not able to read English. That's right. There's an insidious incentive to hold kids back for the economic benefit of teachers."

Wow, that's pretty inflammatory stuff. Teachers are paid more when students learn less. This could be national news! Gosh darn his evidence must be rock solid to get such a contrary- -to-expectation charge, printed in a newspaper. So where is Cass' evidence?

Oh he doesn't give any? Therefore we must just trust that his OUTRAGEOUS, INSULTING, and INFLAMMATORY charge is correct because after all, he said it?

Really? What happened to standards and fact checking at the North County Times? So now anyone is allowed to get published any paranoid rant without anyone at the North County Times requiring the writer to verify his "facts"?

Apparently so. Another sad day in the slow, painful death of this once fine newspaper.