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Schools, and possibly of Rogers, instead of a normal moving company, and paid Brockington, yet Rogers wound up with the money and ended up having to pay it back to Guilford County Schools. Rogers lives in a small brick ranch house on West Vandalia Road – a house that seems unlikely to have room for possessions that would cost $18,975 to move. Brockington’s complaint claims that in January 2006, Guilford County Schools paid Brockington Moving Co. $18,975 to move Rogers, money which he turned over to Rogers ìat the insistence of the defendantî – Rogers. Brockington claimed that he moved
Beep (Continued from page 29) counseling. I submit that it warranted an arrest on felony charges, because that basketball was a weapon and there’s five men on the court, and he assaulted each one at least once. So, he should have, I don’t know, seven, 10, 15 felony charges against him. All right. Thank you. Bye. %%% Yeah, President Obama said he wasn’t going to cut Social Security and Medicare. Then he gets voted back in and now he’s talking about reducing benefits for both of them, which means cost-of-living increases will be less, just like they were this year. Mine was completely wiped out. And not only that, I’ll probably end up paying more for doctors, and for medications, and for monthly premiums. So, I’ll pay more and get less. And I’ll get farther and farther behind every year. Thank you. Bye. %%% Man makes alcohol. God first planted marijuana. Who do you trust? %%% I had to give this some serious thought. What they should do is let all the Democrats, registered Democrats, have Obamacare. Leave everybody else out of it. Let them raise their insurance. If this thing works after a couple of years, then put the Republicans on. It would be a lot easier to implement that way. And besides, the Democrats is the one that voted this thing in. Not a single Republican voted on it. And while they’re at it, this person up North that thinks everybody that owns a gun ought to have insurance. Let the Democrats have insurance on their guns and leave everybody else out of it. That way we can find out just how it works. It’s something that needs to be done. Don’t put all of us on it at one time. Just put the ones on that thinks Obama is the best thing that’s ever happened to this country. That’s what they say. %%% Just pay attention people. Once this illegal immigration reform passes, wait till you see (Continued on page 38)
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Rogers to Guilford County, expecting to be paid by Rogers, and for Rogers to give him documents to justify the moving expenses. He wrote that Rogers refused to give him the documents. Brockington asked the court to award him the $18,975 plus legal costs. Brockington later filed two court papers demanding, under the law, responses from Rogers. In the papers, Brockington was trying to get Rogers to admit for the record that he took the money from Brockington. Brockington’s arguments are summarized in his request for admissions from Rogers filed with the court. A request for admissions is essentially a ìplease ëfess up to the followingî document. B r o c k i n g t o n ’s a rg u m e n t i s t h a t Brockington received the check and gave it to Rogers in March 2006. Brockington argues that Rogers agreed to provide him a receipt for the money, but presumably didn’t; agreed to provide documents for tax purposes but didn’t; and told Brockington that Guilford County Schools had no problem with Brockington giving the money to Rogers. Why Brockington agreed to give Rogers the money is uncertain, but Brockington’s filings argue that he did so, and that Rogers kept the $18,975. That Guilford County Schools considered Rogers keeping the money improper is shown by its recovery of the money – and Rogers paying the money back shows that, if he contested the issue, he lost. It’s not clear which state would have jurisdiction over a dispute over payment for Rogers’ move. But in general, taking money under false pretenses, such as claiming it is being used for a legal expense when it isn’t, is prosecutable under various charges. Several school board members have said that the issue that triggered Rogers’ resignation could be referred to a district attorney. Brockington refused to explain the business transaction between himself and Rogers and declined to comment on the legal case. Rogers responded to Brockington’s complaint only by filing a demurrer – a challenge to the complaint – on July 29, 2009, claiming that the complaint ìis not sufficient in law and ought not to be prosecuted as it fails to adequately state a set of facts constituting a cause of action.î Norfolk District Court Judge Herman Thomas apparently didn’t agree. After Brockington filed numerous requests with the court for Rogers to answer questions, admit to facts and provide documents, Thomas on Oct. 28, 2009, issued an order to compel discovery – an order requiring Rogers to respond to all discovery, interrogatories, requests for admissions and requests for production of documents. There appear to be no court records indicating that Rogers did so. Norfolk Circuit Court records show that the lawsuit was ended on Dec. 22, 2009, with a judgment in favor of Brockington. It was also ìnonsuitedî – determined to no longer be a lawsuit – which probably means
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that Rogers and Brockington settled the matter between themselves. Rogers, at $141,632 a year with bonuses, was the highest paid Guilford County Schools principal and touted as a star of the school system. But there have been other oddities in his record. The Rhino Times in September 2011 reported that Rogers, although he claimed two presumably legitimate degrees – a 1980 bachelor of science degree in social studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a 1982 master’s degree in education administration from Norfolk State University in Virginia – also claimed a 2003 Ph.D. in education administration (magna cum laude) from Madison University, a diploma mill in Gulfport, Mississippi. A diploma mill is a college – a company, actually – that offers diplomas for a fee based on little or no academic work. Diploma mills are usually unaccredited, or are accredited by fake institutions unrecognized in the normal academic world. Some charge by the degree, rather than by the class. Also, Rogers has apparently operated, while principal at Lake Taylor and Smith, decent-sized outside businesses involving rented properties. The civil records of Norfolk General District Court show that a Noah V. Rogers rented properties in Norfolk from 2007 until as recently as May 2012 – while Rogers was principal of Smith.
Running other businesses on the side is a no-no for Guilford County Schools principals. The standard Guilford County Schools principal contains the following provision: ìThe Administrator shall and hereby agrees to devote his/her time, attention, knowledge, and skills to the mission and interest of the Board in his/her capacity as a school administrator, and to use his/her best efforts to promote the interests and affairs of the Guilford County School System. Administrator further agrees he/she shall not engage in any other endeavor which would intrude upon his/her obligation herein.î The Noah V. Rogers in the Norfolk District Court records successfully sued a dozen plaintiffs for ìunlawful detainerî – in other words, to get them evicted for not paying rent. The Norfolk Criminal Court records show that a Noah Rogers was arrested on June 3, 2003 on several misdemeanor charges of running a rooming house without a permit. Those charges were dropped by prosecutors at a July 17, 2003 hearing. Noah Rogers has bought properties other than his house in Greensboro and Guilford County. Guilford County records show him owning seven properties, most in the neighborhood of his house on West Vandalia Road. Rogers could not be reached for comment.
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