Foolish Paper Trail

Boy, Howdy! It doesn't take long to get a few facts! This post is for Another Norwegian:

Here is a factual update on former Cranfills Gap School Superintendent Carla Sigler who maliciously and  ILLEGALLY backdated Cranfills Gap ISD former employee Carol Nelson's health insurance, so Carol and her family would  not be eligible to continue her health insurance under COBRA.

Fact:  Carol Nelson DID have health insurance coverage as an employee at Cransfill Gap ISD. 

 Fact:   According to the Teacher's Retirement Service, aka TRS, an employee only has to work TEN HOURS A WEEK to qualify for health care benefits. To qualify for the district to pay a portion of the employee's health care benefits, an employee has to work FIFTEEN HOURS A WEEK to qualify as an uncertified position. 

Fact:   On December 12th, 2006, Carol Nelson received-- in her mailbox at work --a letter from her boss, Superintendent Carla Sigler stating that if Carol worked over the Christmas holidays she would not be paid for those hours.

Fact:   On December 12th, 2006--same day as above and in her mailbox at work---Carol Nelson received another letter from Carla Sigler stating that, as of January, 2007, Carol Nelson's health care will be dropped. 

Fact:   Carol Nelson replied to Carla Sigler in writing,  asking if Sigler had changed her  (Carol's) hours and inquiring why her health care was being dropped. Carol included a copy of the Texas Adminstrative Code on Eligibility for Membership, to remind Sigler that employees working only  TEN HOURS A WEEK  qualify for health care benefits; and to qualify as an uncertified position and thus qualify for the district to pay for a portion of the health care premiunms, employees only have to work FIFTEEN HOURS A WEEK.

Fact:  Carol Nelson received no written reply to her letter to Carla Sigler  nor was there any discussion of the matter between Carol and Carla.

Fact:     On January 18th, 2007--after the Christmas holidays and the new school semester had begun--- Carol Nelson received a letter ==in her mailbox at work== from Carla Sigler that said please accept this letter as termination of your employment.

Fact:    Health insurance premiums ---  hundreds of dollars paid by Carol Nelson--- were deducted as automatic payroll deductions from Carol Nelson's November 2006, December 2006, and January 2007 paychecks.

Fact:    When Carol Nelson came to school and picked up her last paycheck from Cranfills Gap ISD, Carla Sigler had Carol Nelson sit down and fil out all the COBRA paperwork (as required by law if you are eligible ==AND CAROL NELSON WAS ELIGIBLE FOR COBRA----for continued health care benefits that you will pay for yourself, rather than the company paying for your benefits.) The law is that COBRA must be applied for within a THIRTY DAY PERIOD OF TIME after termination date. 

Fact:    Carol Nelson received a letter from the insurance company notifying Carol that she and her family no longer had health care benefits, as they had been notified by her employer that her insurance had been cancelled in November 2006.  WONDER WHO DID THAT?

Fact:  Carol was now not only NOT eligible for COBRA but has been unable to recover any of her money -- hundreds of dollars ---that she paid for the insurance she unknowingly supposedly no longer had, as Carla Sigler had backdated her paperwork to show a cancellation date of November 2006.  

Wow! How malicious can you be?!?!! 

 Knowing these facts----true statements, not just opinion---I can understand how many people consider Carla Sigler the devil incarnate...I can just picture her and a few of her close buddies, all sitting in a circle, dressed in long, flowing robes, around a boiling cauldron, like the witches that Shakespeare wrote about in MacBeth---though more like Lady Macbeth, a villianess extraordinaire who lusted for power and was willing to do anything to get it, including murder. 

Golly, that's an eerily apt description of Sigler and friends.  I can just see these Lady Macbeths now-----sitting around, plotting their next revengeful, vindictive, malicious, evil----Have Mercy!!! Like many other folks, I have run out of adjectives adequate enough to describe Carla and her friends! 

Carla Sigler was not really all that wise either, or she would never have left such a well-documented paper trail of  some of her most despicable actions. And any fool should know that you don't leave an ugly,  threatening message on science teacher Michelle Dubay's answering machine that can be  played for the entire town, so they can hear for themselves what you are  really  like.

 Also, Carla, you shouldn't lie about things that can be easily verified,  like saying the school board fired Michelle Dubay at a board meeting, when it wasn't on the agenda and by law it had to be to even discuss it, and Michelle Dubay herself had been at that very meeting and knew you were lying, along with everyone else.  And how foolish when you  lied that the school attorney told you to send a letter to Michelle Dubay saying the school board had accepted Dubay's resignation. Lie upon lie upon lie!!! 

 Foolish! Foolish! Foolish! As the great Dr. Phil would say, "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!!!?????!!!! Ah, but that's just it.....you weren't thinking, or else you had gotten carried away by your thirst for revenge to protect lawbreaker Laura Rose, or so caught in your web of  lies that you couldn't remember which lies you had told.  And that does happen with pathological liars.

 Carla Sigler also used students and her staff as a shield--- often without thought for the privacy rights of the students--- using their statements and testimony to protect herself.  Students and staff should never be involved at any point as she involved them, but Carla Sigler had to do something to conceal the truth. 

As I have said before and will say again:                                                    

 I have known two people in this world like former Cranfills Gap Superintendent Carla Sigler---One is in prison for life without parole and the other one was murdered.