Comments on: What Is It With JCPS and Sheldon Berman?

By: Always Amazed

Always Amazed — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:34:25 +0000

He looks to be Jim Hearn, Jr……so is he son of the infamous theft?

By: Judy

Judy — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:59:17 +0000

The C-J article listed the JCPS “investigators,” who prepared the findings for the JCPS report. One of them is Jim Hearn.

Surely this is not the Jim Hearn who once served at Chairman of the Jeff. Co. School Board. Hearn used his influence, along with his wife Patti Hearn, a JCPS Deputy Superintendent, to pull a bogus encyclopedia scam in the early 1990s. The Hearns cheated the system, students, and parents out of more than $322,000 in overpriced encyclopedias, many of them never delivered. These two crooks were charged, convicted, and sentenced. They left Louisville in disgrace.

Is the JCPS “investigator” in the Max Gilpin case the same Jim Hearn?

By: jake

jake — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:47:51 +0000

Not worth it.

B1st only writes fluff.

By: Always Amazed

Always Amazed — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:36:37 +0000

What a surprise, Business First editorial agrees Berman’s performance grade should be an A+.
http://louisville.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2009/07/06/editorial1.html?jst=pn_pn_lk

Jake, can you get the whole article for us?

By: Just me

Just me — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:35:30 +0000

I have no idea what, precisely, caused this young man’s death. However, from what I’ve read (various sources), not only did Max collapse at PRP’s practice that day, another player did, too. And, if I remember correctly, *another* player puked while doing the ‘gassers’. As Berman, himself, pointed out there was a PRP soccer game being played at the same time. And, I feel certain, there were multiple athletic practices/events going on in the Louisville area…*at the same time*. Were any other athletes from the other practices/events taken to the hospital that day? Could it possibly be that Stinson & Co did *not* take necessary precautions? Perhaps, pushed *too* hard?

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:38:35 +0000

Yep, the culture of what is means to be a man is at the base of a lot of this. Ignore pain and real danger to please the so-called MAN in charge. Never be the one to complain for your own sake. We have to wonder if the coaches (and there was more than one on the field that day) really are men in a meaningful sense and frankly what role real Christian principles play in their lives (they are the ones who have played the Christian card). As for the school district supt and his staff—what did we expect from that bunch? CYA all the way. The supt. is outraged? Doesn’t he have an odd way of dealing with his outrage?

By: Robert Kahne

Robert Kahne — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:37:34 +0000

Look at you, going and opinionizing on your web-site. It’s like its 2007 on here or something.

By: slim

slim — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:53:54 +0000

Amen, Amen, Amen. Fuck that phony, bible toting prick, “coach” Stinson.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:46:14 +0000

When I finished reading of the discrepancies between the findings of JCPS “investigation” and the criminal probe in the C-J, I was even more outraged and disgusted than I was yesterday.

Even if Max wasn’t denied water and didn’t die of dehydration, for Stinson to order his players to keep running until someone quit the team — in late August in the Ohio Valley — showed a reckless disregard for their well being. This was an unconscionable invitation to disaster.

Teachers and coaches get fired for much lesser offenses than endangering the health and safety of students.

If Supt. Berman truly wanted to send a loud & clear message districtwide that redneck, lunkheaded coaching is unacceptable, he would have delivered a letter of termination instead of a slap on the wrist.

This “report” has the grubby pawprints of lawyers all over it. It infuriates me that it was paid for with taxpayers’ money, and it enrages me that Berman seems more interested in covering the district’s butt legally than seeking or finding the truth and providing “solace and healing” to Max’s family and friends.

This is the crock of the century. It’s not even a convincing whitewash — and WE paid for it!!

This may serve to improve Berman’s deficient relations with personnel, but not with those of us taxpayers who are paying close attention.

By: Bruce Maples

Bruce Maples — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:18:27 +0000

The young man’s internal body temperature was 107 degrees when he got to the hospital, and the official cause of death was listed as heat stroke, IIRC. There has been no indication so far that any combination of existing conditions and medications can cause your body temperature to spontaneously shoot to that level. So, I’m not ready yet to chalk this death up to random tragedy. SOMETHING caused that temperature spike, and so far I haven’t seen a good explanation. But shrugging it off as luck of the draw for one unfortunate teenager doesn’t cut it.