Superintendent Scott Menzel confirmed that the Scottsdale Unified School District School Board will likely be electing a new president to replace Jann-Michael Greenburg during a Special Meeting set for Monday night.
Greenburg has not yet responded to the growing number of calls for his resignation from the Board altogether.
The meeting is set for Monday, November 15 at 6:00 p.m., at the District’s administration building located at 8500 E. Jackrabbit Road.
With or without Greenburg’s resignation as president, Menzel advised the Arizona Daily Independent that the Board may elect a new president at any time. And the meeting’s agenda provides specifically for that action to occur.
Greenburg’s demotion will not satisfy community members who have called for him to resign, along with fellow board members Zach Lindsay and Julie Cieniawski as well as Menzel himself, based on their alleged participation in a bizarre campaign to collect information on parents who expressed concerns about masking policies and Critical Race Theory-based (CRT) curriculum.
Disturbing videos of the lengths Greenburg’s father went to as part of the spying scheme were shared on a Google drive that also contained the targeted parents’ private financial and personal information. That material eventually landed on a news site that failed to redact social security numbers and other normally protected information.
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“Jann-Michael Greenburg is not the only one who must resign from the Scottsdale Unified Governing Board for his bad behavior and involvement in the secretive digital dossier kept on parents and community members. Fellow board members Zach Lindsay and Julie Cieniawski, along with Superintendent Scott Menzel, were also privy to the Greenburg’s Google Drive and must be held accountable for their failure to protect SUSD families,” said Amy Carney, a Scottsdale mother of five.
“Board member Julie Cieniawski and Superintendent Scott Menzel were recipients of the email from Greenburg containing the screenshot of the Google drive address and folders. In a subsequent email response, Mom Kim Stafford brought the Google drive to their attention, saying, “the fact that you have a Google drive folder with my name on it is, on the one hand, fascinating, on the other disturbing,” explained Carney.
Lindsay’s profile zachary99_00 appeared as one of the users with access to edit files in the Greenburg drive.
“With the current lack of leadership in SUSD, the community cannot trust the District to responsibly do an independent forensic audit of the Greenburg Google drive. An investigation is a complete waste of taxpayer dollars unless the stakeholders approve a third-party auditor with no ties to the District,” concluded Carney, who has been recruited to run for the school board.
Not only do parents want to see resignations, many of them are planning to sue the District and those individuals who participated in what they say was an abusive campaign and an assault on their fundamental rights.
Philanthropist and senatorial candidate Jim Lamon has come to the aid of the injured parents and has offered to pay their legal bills in the fight.
“This is just the latest outrageous abuse by the Left in our education system,” Lamon told the Arizona Daily Independent. “Education officials throughout America are pushing CRT, trying to impose mask mandates, and in this local case going as far as intimidating parents who simply want accountability and what’s best for their children’s education — it all must stop. Our school districts must focus on core education, not push political agendas, and parents should be more involved, not less. I’ve called for the School Board President’s resignation, and I’ve made it clear that I’m willing to help fund a lawsuit if that’s what it takes to get to the bottom of this and hold all bad actors accountable. To be clear, one resignation is not enough — we need an independent forensic investigation so that anyone else involved can be held accountable.”
Arizona State Rep. Joseph Chaplik also called for an independent investigation. Chaplik questioned the ability of the District to conduct its own investigation which Menzel announced on Friday night.
Rep. Joseph Chaplik discusses the involvement in Scottsdale spy gate being deeper than originally thought. #Trump https://t.co/3JeeN4YINb
— James T Harris (@JamesTHarris) November 15, 2021
Chaplik was joined by Arizona State Rep. Beverly Pingerelli, a member of the Peoria Unified School District, in calling for Greenburg’s resignation.