News vs. opinion, private investigator vs. self research are irrelevant to the story.

The point of Dennis Miller's article (which most readers appeared to grasp) was that a single set of disgruntled parents were able to ruin an entire girls basketball season with the permission of the Pleasanton Unified School District Office. All other parents, players and coaches were ignored before taking blind action. This is the embarrassment that was rightfully called out by Dennis. Thank you for keeping this story in the forefront of the community's minds.

Why was the Amador Varsity Girl's Basketball Coach position reposted to delete the criminal background check requirement and replaced by another job posting requirement that deleted this requirement. The replaced job posting was
Web Link and has the requirements:

Cover Letter
Resume
Three Letters of Recommendation

The original posting Web Link for the position required (that the PUSD deleted for the position and replaced with the above posting):

Coach Clearance
Fingerprint Clearance
TB Clearance
Safe Schools Online Training

So they swapped the job posting out for another one. Odd, huh?

The job postings say the start date was 8/1, August 1st, and was on the personnel books months before approval by the PUSD board. The PUSD hired this person with a Start Date of August 1st and after the person was employed for months, the school board was given in mid-November the permission to hire this employee in their packet, 3 1/2 months after he was on the payroll. Why was the PUSD board given the approval to hire a person 3 1/2 months after they were already hired rather than prior to the hire date of August 1?

Sounds like the district staff tried to pull the wool over the PUSD school board. And succeeded.

Also, why does the Pleasanton Weekly have a plethora of employees that either have worked for PUSD or have a wife that works at PUSD? It seems as though Dennis Miller's wife works at Foothill. At least that is what he says on his Facebook page - the one where he calls people a name starting with (removed) Then of course Tim Hunt and Jeb Bing both had wives that worked for the PUSD. It would make a lot of sense to keep so-called reporters that have wives that work or collect pensions from PUSD from doing opinion columns.

The Pleasanton Weekly would actually be a much better newspaper if it expanded its hiring pool to include others that didn't have a wife that works for the local school district or includes the former PUSD PIO. In the meanwhile, perhaps it could supplement its staff from volunteer kids that know how to use search engines that could help its newsrooms in doing real reporting. Kids in Brownies and Cub Scouts are always looking for service hours for badges and it looks as though the Pleasanton Weekly could use some real help.

Parent,
Don't know all good questions the school should answer. None of which I'm sure had anything to do with these two (removed) parents motivation for going after the coach.

You can't absolve the parents behavior.

Three glaring problems with the above article:

1) "Readers can differentiate between news stories, editorials and columns by presentation and writing style."
False statement - In principle readers might do so, but obviously in practice some cannot.

2) "News stories have the byline of the reporter and will not reflect the opinion of the reporter."
False statement - much easier said than done; nowadays readers routinely see all manner of editorial content masquerading as "factual reporting" in every paper in the country, up to and including the New York Times and the Washington Post.

3) "Speaking of ethics, no families were named in the "Pleasanton Preps" column"
Except that by mentioning that the parents involved [removed].