The school board never wants to face reality. It goes against their agenda.

This was an attempted cover-up from the start. We were told by the district administrators that there was no precedence for dealing with romance in the office. The Mercury News didn't have to go very far to find one.

Kyle,

Your statement made me reread the article. I see nothing in there about MV Whisman except in the lead paragraph.

Of course there's "precedence" in the sense that somewhere, somebody had a romantic relationship "in the office." But MV Whisman said then that it did not have a *policy* for dealing with it. Far as I know it still doesn't. This article says that about a third of the county's districts do not have policies in place.

One more clarification: the Civil Grand Jury did NOT "speak out on Ghysels conflict of interest." It made observations and recommendations generally, to apply to all districts in the county. And the investigation was launched due to a different complaint about a different superintendent. Neither Ghysels nor that supe was named or singled out in the report, and the lead investigator told Nick Veronin that Ghysels was NOT the impetus of the investigation.

You should query the reporter who wrote the article. The Ghysels incident is a case of point in this area. It's just amazing how the blindly loyal and low the pro-Ghysels Kool Aid drinkers are.