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In my dealings with the district schools administrators, I expected to encounter stone <br /> walling, evasion and bureaucratic bungling. However, I also encountered a problem that I did <br /> not anticipate, namely very poor ethics. They broke promises. They lied to me both directly <br /> and through their attorney. Specific examples include reneging on a written agreement in July <br /> 1993. The following month, incorrect statements were published by their attorney. When these <br /> statements were shown to be false, no attempt was made to retract them or to apologize. In <br /> September of last year a board member made promises in the presence of my attorney and then <br /> failed to make good on them. I was later to discover that this kind of behavior is business as <br /> usual for our district administrators and they have the gall to censure Lavonda Burnette for <br /> much smaller lies. Oh, the hypocrisy of it all! <br /> It is time to demand higher standards of integrity and trust from our public servants. <br /> Something must be done to restore credibility and fiscal responsibility to the CHCCS system. <br /> Let us make a start by asking the Board of Education to come up with a better plan than to <br /> spend $11 million on an elementary school and do this by insisting on a bond referendum so <br /> that they will have to sell their plan to the voters. <br />