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Vickie Holbrook
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - 8:22 pm

The Idaho Press-Tribune made an audio recording of Nampa Classical Academy's meeting Monday night. Due to the length of the meeting, the audio is posted in three parts.

Click here to listen to Part 1.

Click here to listen to Part 2.

Click here to listen to Part 3.

Yes, the last hour of charter meeting was not recorded. But stay tuned ...

Monday night's Nampa Classical Academy board meeting (See story here) turned out not to be an official meeting because the board did not have a quorum. But the remaining board members sat at the front of a packed room of upset parents and staff and answered some questions, dodged others and pointed fingers at each other for a grueling 6-plus hours. There were more than 100 people there.

We had a reporter there at 6:30 p.m. And I showed up at 8:15 p.m. Three board members — one of which is an ad hoc member, left at midnight, indicating that they had heard enough for the night.

Apparently the board members for Nampa Classical Academy gathered Monday night with the intent to remove Mike Moffett from the board. But without a quorum, they couldn't do that. The four board members at the meeting indicated that they did not think the school could survive with Mike Moffett on the board. Remember that three people resigned last week. (See Sunday's story.)

Nearly six hours into a meeting, Mike Moffett revealed after several questions, that he's not sure what it means yet, but the Idaho Charter Commission has requested a meeting with Nampa Classical Academy.

Board member Mitch Miller was told at least two different times that he was out of order after interrupting with protests about "hacked" e-mails that board members had written and were later discovered.

Finally, Mike Moffett's wife addressed the group during the final hour. The tape recorder, which had been placed on top of a tall speaker in the front of the room, apparently had fallen and stopped recording.

I didn't discover that until the end of the meeting when I retrieved it.

Mrs. Mike Moffett, however, revealed information that the board members did not and would not discuss. Even though the tape recorder wasn't working, I took copious notes, but there's a lot to sort out. We have questions out to several people.

If you have some solid information that could help us, please email me at vholbrook@idahopress.com or call me at 465-8110.

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Comments:

I can't believe the question was even asked, especially by someone with "liberty" in their handle. A real American NEVER EVER quits digging for the truth.
replicant - 5:36 PM, Friday October 23, 2009
m4liberty, it's clear you don't like any questions being asked about this publicly funded school, but why did you take your vision public if you didn't expect questions? If NCA had been a private school, there would be no questions.
BlueinIdaho - 2:50 PM, Thursday October 22, 2009
Why was the vision taken public? So many of the children including special needs children could get the benefits of a Classical Education. They school did expect questions, and they ghave answered them. Your right a private school can teach anything if they wish, but to teach the public how to think critically and develop an opinion warrants a service to society that most peopl will only begin to understand in the future. The students love the school and many of them hated school before. They feel challenged each day and are glad to get up and go. The parents are greatful for this also. That is why this is a public school and not a private one. The private schools of this kind only benefit the people that can afford it.
m4liberty - 9:58 PM, Thursday October 22, 2009
It certainly bears investigating. The Moffetts scare me. They seem very agenda driven and bent upon pushing their vision, not that of the public charter.
replicant - 4:10 PM, Wednesday October 21, 2009
The Moffets have not wavered. The other founders have not wavered. There is no agenda, but people seem to think so. What was presented is what they are getting. The education is wonderful and that is what was promised. I know they want to build a building and at the time it was suppose to happen next year and still may. But lets get real here folks, would you rather have a bankrupt school because they moved to quickly or should they be fiscally responsible and pay the staff better, hold off on the building and development, and get a better foundation under them. I heard some parents say that they were promised a Building with a gym and cafeteria. Well that will come. Maybe next year maybe not. I do not know, but to push hard and get into serious debt right from the start maybe was not the right path to go down. especially with a developer that coild not be straight with the board. I think maybe there is some merrit to what Mr. Moffett is saying. The rest of the board was on a witch hunt because he did not agree with them.
m4liberty - 12:20 AM, Thursday October 22, 2009
At approximately the 18 minute mark on the second recording, the speaker is reading from a letter that asserts that their child is exposed to "fundamentalist" teachings and "anti-islamic" statements. I would suggest following up with that set of parents. This is what was warned about from the beginning based upon the idealogy of the founders.
BlueinIdaho - 12:24 PM, Wednesday October 21, 2009
Blue- do you have children at the academy or just a relative? Really now why don't you just quit digging. If you have children there and don't like it then leave. It is a school of choice. If you are just a relative then let your family make their own choices already.
m4liberty - 12:11 AM, Thursday October 22, 2009
Regarding m4liberty's comment to Blue: Why isn't it considered important that taxpayers have a voice regarding a school using taxpayers' money? It seems that these charter school take away all accountability to the taxpayer and are operated by elitist cliques. Because of that, they seem more than a bit fascist.
The Political Refugee - 7:46 PM, Saturday October 24, 2009


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