| Not everyone dislikes Richard Werlin. A WCCCUSD parent posted the following on the yahoo group site West County Parents Forum. She wanted to defend Werlin, but apparently couldn't come up with any examples of any good things he had done. So she decided to attack the author of this website, apparently believing that the enemy of my "friend" is my enemy. |
| The posting above by lrl is from wccusdtalk · West County Parents Forum Mon Mar 19, 2007 12:49 pm #8854 |
| The dictionary says the word DISGRUNTLED means, "in a state of sulky dissatisfaction; discontent...displeased and discontented, sulky; peevish...grouchy, testy sullen grumpy dissatisfied." Someone certainly got that wrong. Maura Larkins is a cheerful person--just ask anyone who has spent a lot of time around her. One of her talents is finding the humor and irony in just about every situation--including Richard Werlin's bullying. Maura Larkins is also dedicated to changing our failing school system. |
| > > > Some people (such as lrl) clearly believe that a court decision was made that determined that these malicious allegations, published on a public site, were true. In fact, the quotes are from a PERB case which was never heard before a judge. Maura Larkins' charges were dismissed without any findings being made. The allegations quoted were false. (See Law Enforcement for deposition passages that prove that Richard Werlin committed perjury, in addition to other crimes. Maura Larkins' San Diego Superior Court Case was thrown out before it was heard because she couldn't keep up with the eight law firms working against her. |
| In Defense of Richard Werlin |
| New Book about Bullies Someone at WCCCUSD appears to agree with Robert Sutton, author of the new book "The No A__hole Rule." (Sorry for the bad language, but that's the name of the book.) The book says that bullies harm productivity and cause talented employees to leave. Many excellent employees left Castle Park Elementary School in Chula Vista when Rick Werlin and a small group of abusive teachers ruled the roost there, protected by hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars and a school board that was willing to pay whatever it took to cover up Rick Werlin's crimes. Sutton "advocates a tough zero-tolerance policy for jerks at work, and offers self-diagnostic tests to see whether you yourself might be part of the problem," says Newsweek's John Sparks. (March 19, 2007). |
| Re: re-hiring retired administrators (by lrl) I'm curious too, what happened to Rick Werlin,(HR)? I had heard good things about him and was hoping he could help protect students from abusive teachers. Most teachers are wonderful, but sometimes you find a teacher with serious problems. I know he was kind of trashed on this group. A while back Jill posted negative stuff about him that was taken from a disgruntled teacher's personal web site. I've put the links below from Court Documents (where this teacher lost) and links to her website, so people can check it out and decide for themselves. • • • • • Here are court documents I found online with a couple of excerpts. <http://www.perb.ca. gov/decisionbank/pdfs/1557E.pdf> Excerpts: ORDER The unfair practice charge filed by Maura Hogan Larkins in Case No. LA-CE- 4382-E is hereby DISMISSED WITHOUT LEAVE TO AMEND. ... When you did not respond to the telephone calls, Mr.Werlin sent you at least five letters during the month of September 2001 directing you to meet with him concerning your teaching assignment. ... Excerpt from her Dismissal letter. page 9 of ...Mr. Werlin informed you that two teachers had filed a complaint alleging that you had behaved as if you were going to kill someone and they feared for their safety. Mr. Werlin informed you that you were being removed from your classroom. In March 2001, Mr. Werlin informed you that you had been cleared to return to school. On March 27, 2001, while visiting your classroom you spoke with Mr.Werlin. Following the meeting, Mr. Werlin accused you of irrational behavior and throwing pens at him.... • • • • • Here is the teacher's personal website: <http://www.mauralarkins. com/WhatWentWrongAtCVESD.html> <http://www.mauralarkins. com/RiddlesAboutCVESD.html> Excerpt: How does Richard Werlin resemble an archbishop? • • • • • |
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To lrl:
I thought you might be interested in this link
about teachers in WCCCUSD:
Susan Ohanian won an award for rational
discussion of public issues. It seems likely
that Rick Werlin was hired to help suppress
teachers like the [Downer Five]--not
abusive teachers.
You will find that Susan Ohanian also writes
about the extreme right wing agenda of
Libia Gil, who was the Chula Vista
superintendent who hired and worked
closely with Rick Werlin. No one will hire
Libia Gil, although she's been looking for a
superintendent's job ever since she resigned
from Chula Vista shortly after she and
Werlin hired me. (The New American
Schools job was just a face-saver. She
never even left San Diego.) I couldn't
believe it when Werlin got hired in Richmond.
I'm guessing that the good things you heard
about Werlin were basically quotes from
Werlin himself. He does present himself
well, and knows what to say to charm
people. The trouble starts when his other
personality appears. I attended Washington
School in Point Richmond in kindergarten
and first grade, so I have been following
Werlin's escapades in Richmond with special
interest.
Don't assume Werlin always tells the truth.
Both teachers who, according to Werlin, said
they thought I was going to kill them,
vehemently denied this under oath. They
admitted I had NEVER done or said anything
that would make anyone feel threatened.
Werlin committed perjury. Then he claimed
to have a heart attack. [Neither he nor the
district wanted him] to testify in my case. I
understand he now claims to have suffered
another heart attack. He seems to do this
right when a school district wants to get rid
of him.
Maura Larkins
I thought you might be interested in this link
about teachers in WCCCUSD:
Susan Ohanian won an award for rational
discussion of public issues. It seems likely
that Rick Werlin was hired to help suppress
teachers like the [Downer Five]--not
abusive teachers.
You will find that Susan Ohanian also writes
about the extreme right wing agenda of
Libia Gil, who was the Chula Vista
superintendent who hired and worked
closely with Rick Werlin. No one will hire
Libia Gil, although she's been looking for a
superintendent's job ever since she resigned
from Chula Vista shortly after she and
Werlin hired me. (The New American
Schools job was just a face-saver. She
never even left San Diego.) I couldn't
believe it when Werlin got hired in Richmond.
I'm guessing that the good things you heard
about Werlin were basically quotes from
Werlin himself. He does present himself
well, and knows what to say to charm
people. The trouble starts when his other
personality appears. I attended Washington
School in Point Richmond in kindergarten
and first grade, so I have been following
Werlin's escapades in Richmond with special
interest.
Don't assume Werlin always tells the truth.
Both teachers who, according to Werlin, said
they thought I was going to kill them,
vehemently denied this under oath. They
admitted I had NEVER done or said anything
that would make anyone feel threatened.
Werlin committed perjury. Then he claimed
to have a heart attack. [Neither he nor the
district wanted him] to testify in my case. I
understand he now claims to have suffered
another heart attack. He seems to do this
right when a school district wants to get rid
of him.
Maura Larkins
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007
The PERB board could not possibly have
believed Werlin's false statements. His
story made no sense at all. He was
contradicted under oath by teacher after
teacher. But PERB's decision was a
foregone conclusion; they are beholden to
CTA. But I trust that you are not! After
all, you've seen what happened to the
Downer Five.
I'm interested in WCCCUSD since I
attended school in Richmond as a child, and
one of the most important people in my
case also played an important role in
WCCCUSD. I guess Werlin will be moving
back here to San Diego. It's a small world,
isn't it?
Maura Larkins
The PERB board could not possibly have
believed Werlin's false statements. His
story made no sense at all. He was
contradicted under oath by teacher after
teacher. But PERB's decision was a
foregone conclusion; they are beholden to
CTA. But I trust that you are not! After
all, you've seen what happened to the
Downer Five.
I'm interested in WCCCUSD since I
attended school in Richmond as a child, and
one of the most important people in my
case also played an important role in
WCCCUSD. I guess Werlin will be moving
back here to San Diego. It's a small world,
isn't it?
Maura Larkins
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007
Subject: About throwing pens and killing people
But I suspect that there were no good things about Werlin
to write, so your only option in your effort to defend him
was to attack me.
Werlin seem to lie almost as easily as he breathes.
Werlin has UTR wrapped around his little finger. That's
exactly what he did in San Diego. Although most teachers
are honest, the union leaders are not. They want power
more than they want to deal with the truth or obey the law.
This type of teacher has created a teacher culture that
causes good teachers to leave and bad teachers to stay.
Werlin violated the Education Code by putting me on leave
without giving a reason in writing. The reason he gave orally
was that two teachers said I acted as if I was going to kill
them. Under oath, both teachers denied that they said any
such thing, and denied that I had ever acted in such a way.
You might want to look at this page in my site to understand
how bad teachers obtain power by destroying good
teachers:
http://mauralarkins.com/jhtestimony.html
My case is about how incompetent and power-hungry
administrators and teachers get rid of good teachers.
That's the big problem in education. Until you fix that
problem, you'll never fix education.
The mess that education is in--just like the mess the world is
in--is due to human nature, and there's not much you or I
can do to change that. But one thing we can do is to work to
make sure that the truth and the law are respected in the
field of education.
Maura
Subject: About throwing pens and killing people
But I suspect that there were no good things about Werlin
to write, so your only option in your effort to defend him
was to attack me.
Werlin seem to lie almost as easily as he breathes.
Werlin has UTR wrapped around his little finger. That's
exactly what he did in San Diego. Although most teachers
are honest, the union leaders are not. They want power
more than they want to deal with the truth or obey the law.
This type of teacher has created a teacher culture that
causes good teachers to leave and bad teachers to stay.
Werlin violated the Education Code by putting me on leave
without giving a reason in writing. The reason he gave orally
was that two teachers said I acted as if I was going to kill
them. Under oath, both teachers denied that they said any
such thing, and denied that I had ever acted in such a way.
You might want to look at this page in my site to understand
how bad teachers obtain power by destroying good
teachers:
http://mauralarkins.com/jhtestimony.html
My case is about how incompetent and power-hungry
administrators and teachers get rid of good teachers.
That's the big problem in education. Until you fix that
problem, you'll never fix education.
The mess that education is in--just like the mess the world is
in--is due to human nature, and there's not much you or I
can do to change that. But one thing we can do is to work to
make sure that the truth and the law are respected in the
field of education.
Maura
Sat, 24 Mar 2007
After trying so hard to make information available to
parents and acknowledging that the district doesn't
keep you informed, it seems a pity for the members of
the WCCCUSD parents forum to start keeping your own
secrets.
You have clearly become disgruntled by the very mild
and limited free speech that has taken place on the
WCCCUSD parents forum.
I believe public school decisions should be made openly
and honestly, not behind closed doors, How can voters
know which board members to vote for if they don't
even know what's really going on? The cover-up of
Richard Werlin's actions at WCCCUSD is just the type of
maneuver that voters and parents should oppose.
If you go to
mauralarkins.com/MauraLarkinsOAHhearing.html
you will get a clearer idea of what happened at the
hearing to dismiss me.
Maura Larkins
After trying so hard to make information available to
parents and acknowledging that the district doesn't
keep you informed, it seems a pity for the members of
the WCCCUSD parents forum to start keeping your own
secrets.
You have clearly become disgruntled by the very mild
and limited free speech that has taken place on the
WCCCUSD parents forum.
I believe public school decisions should be made openly
and honestly, not behind closed doors, How can voters
know which board members to vote for if they don't
even know what's really going on? The cover-up of
Richard Werlin's actions at WCCCUSD is just the type of
maneuver that voters and parents should oppose.
If you go to
mauralarkins.com/MauraLarkinsOAHhearing.html
you will get a clearer idea of what happened at the
hearing to dismiss me.
Maura Larkins
Thu, 22 Mar 2007
I remember that I peed in my seat when I was in first grade because I was so terrified of the teacher. Thank
goodness she left to get married after a few months.
Unfortunately, many teachers use the bathroom as some sort of moral test of kids--if you need to go, you are morally
inadequate. Union leaders are often the most rigid and authoritarian teachers. I was criticized by other teachers for
being too nice to kids. I'm afraid you won't get rid of this teacher unless the union leaders dislike her.
Maura
| I (Maura Larkins) created this webpage when I realized that many people probably believe these false allegations. I must confess that I assumed, for example, that the horrible allegations that came out last year about Lacrosse players at Duke University must be true, or no prosecutor would have charged those boys. I am ashamed of myself for not knowing better. I believe the prosecutor should be prosecuted for his cynical use of the justice system to gain votes. He severely damaged the lives of four young men to win his reelection. Those who damage children in cynical power plays should be removed from schools and judged as ordinary citizens for their crimes. |
To lrl:
I'm the teacher whom Rick Werlin
accused of "irrational behavior."
He made up the story. Not one single
word of his story was true. Rick Werlin is
capable of things you would not expect
from someone in his position. I assure
you, he never protected kids from abusive
teachers at my school--and there were
several abusive teachers.
Werlin was very much on the side of the
abusive teachers. He harmed my students
terribly. They were lost without me. They
had a series of substitutes who simply did
not know what to do. One of them hadn't
even done her student teaching! I still
tutor several of those students all these
years later.
Three years after I left my school, the
district transferred out five teachers who
had bullied me and made false allegations
and cost the district a lot of money. Those
five teachers were friends of the union
president, which is why the union did not
support me. That is why I lost my PERB
case. To support me, CTA would have had
to admit that the CTA local affiliate
president had covered up serious
violations of law. PERB goes along with
CTA to a shocking extent. (See the
Turlock case.) PERB has a rule that CTA
does not owe teachers a duty of equal
representation. Can you believe that?
Also, the PTA president of our school, who
was closely associated with the five
ousted teachers and the CTA local
president, embezzled $20,000 during the
2004-2005 school year.
Rick Werlin helped create a culture of
lawlessness at Castle Park Elementary.
I'm wondering where you got the
impression that Rick Werlin was somehow
helpful to kids abused by teachers?
Maura Larkins
I'm the teacher whom Rick Werlin
accused of "irrational behavior."
He made up the story. Not one single
word of his story was true. Rick Werlin is
capable of things you would not expect
from someone in his position. I assure
you, he never protected kids from abusive
teachers at my school--and there were
several abusive teachers.
Werlin was very much on the side of the
abusive teachers. He harmed my students
terribly. They were lost without me. They
had a series of substitutes who simply did
not know what to do. One of them hadn't
even done her student teaching! I still
tutor several of those students all these
years later.
Three years after I left my school, the
district transferred out five teachers who
had bullied me and made false allegations
and cost the district a lot of money. Those
five teachers were friends of the union
president, which is why the union did not
support me. That is why I lost my PERB
case. To support me, CTA would have had
to admit that the CTA local affiliate
president had covered up serious
violations of law. PERB goes along with
CTA to a shocking extent. (See the
Turlock case.) PERB has a rule that CTA
does not owe teachers a duty of equal
representation. Can you believe that?
Also, the PTA president of our school, who
was closely associated with the five
ousted teachers and the CTA local
president, embezzled $20,000 during the
2004-2005 school year.
Rick Werlin helped create a culture of
lawlessness at Castle Park Elementary.
I'm wondering where you got the
impression that Rick Werlin was somehow
helpful to kids abused by teachers?
Maura Larkins
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