Did Mrs. Geesey ever ask you to do anything as a result of the controversy surrounding her comment?
A. Yes. The next morning the paper reported that she had recommended firing the teachers. And she immediately contacted me and told me that that was obviously not what she had said, and I agreed with her, and she did two things. One, she sent me an e-mail explaining her position and asked me to forward that throughout all the teachers stating on her behalf that — or, in her words, that that was not what she had intended and, in fact, that she had liked all the teachers and supported the teachers. Secondly, to prove that that was not what she had said, she requested that I develop a verbatim transcript of the October 18th meeting concerning the issues of — or the area of curriculum. Q. Well, the tape has been mentioned before, so I want to show you that tape, Rich.
Did Mrs. Geesey ever ask you to do anything as a result of the controversy surrounding her comment?