Comments on: School superintendent says ‘Survivor’ “lunch lady” lied

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:01:25 +0000

Who knows? for certain likely some mis-communication or mis-perception involved on one or both sides. In case no one noticed when she refused to do the math or face reality on re-aligning herself with Erik and PG and in other comments on the show Denise’s perceptions aren’t always the sharpest. To say this on TV when she had been away 2-3 months and still had a job wasn’t very clever, even if it made a nice crowning touch to her harping sympathy plays on the show.
But in the end hopefully we can all just let this go and let her get on with her regular life and making peace with her co-workers and employer. could argue she deserves the $ 50,000 for entertainment value or playin the Survivor players, Jeff and co. Better the latter reason since if for enetrtainment value no one could top Courtney!

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:53:15 +0000

I can understand Denise completely. I worked for a school in the food service dept. for 22 yrs.as the head cook, and they pulled the rug out from under me also.

By: upchuck

upchuck — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:43:35 +0000

jump aboard the ship of fools. who’s lying? all of them. in the name of greed and idolatry, people these days will say anything that suits their “value”
a sad sort of affairs. television simply is the medium that is used for this purpose.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:38:16 +0000

Maddie Dec. 17
Nancy Lane is a wonderful principled superintendent of the Douglas Public Schools. I believe what she says is true, and I’m sure the real truth will come out. It is ashame that Denise felt the need to play the sympathy card, and twist the truth about her real life. And here we thought she was the most truthful and popular of all the contestants. My daughter goes to the school where she works, and sees her everyday, it is dissapointing and I hope she comes forward and tells the truth.

By: Dwebb

Dwebb — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:32:49 +0000

Denise did not lie, this is being sugar coated by the school system to save face. Anyone who has worked or dealt with the school system, knows that this was a black eye for them. Why did they tell her she was too much of a distraction to be in the school during the day hours. The way they will dodge this bullet is someone of lesser authority within her school will take the fall and we will never hear about it. The school itself may have made the decision to move Denise, and the fact that those decisions do not have to be approved through the super, allows her to with a clean concious say they did not do anything wrong to Denise. Then next week sometime in the back of the paper you will see a small addendum to poor Denises story, stating that some personell without the consent of the super or school board said things that were misrepresentative of the schools true feelings and that they want to publicly apologize for calling her a liar. To bad it will be on the back page.

By: wayne

wayne — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:31:50 +0000

YA GOT GONAD’S DENISE !!

By: Andrea

Andrea — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:17:29 +0000

I think this could have looked really bad for the school. I am unsure who to believe but I’m not going to down Denise just because some superintendent says she is lying. One of them is lying, but which one?? None of us know which one is fibbing.
But this is the superintendent of the school entire school system. How in the world would she know what went on with the hirings/firings of a lunch lady/janitor? She might be able to look into a file- with the SCHOOLS version of events, which most definitely make the school look good.
The school system certainly has more motive to lie than Denise – that sympathy cash has never been handed out in survivor history, so why would Denise ever imagine they’d give her that money?
I am staying behind denise on this one!

By: TI

TI — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:15:04 +0000

I am thinking the school board had to make a very quick decision on what to say about Denise’s comments last night! When Denise said she could not be a lunch lady because it caused to many distractions…. I was at a loss for words! That sounds like crap people do and then to come back and say they did not do that! I think the school board was covering their ass!
Becuase last night there had to have at least one good lawyer that was going to contact her today and then DENISE would be a millionare! I doubt Denise would lie on the show in front of millions… She had no idea she was going to get any kind of money last night!

By: Cathy

Cathy — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:10:37 +0000

I still like her……

By: jb4

jb4 — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:06:09 +0000

She didn’t lie. She said she lost her job as the lunch lady and was given the job of custodian. She didn’t say she was fired. It’s all semantics. Plus who is to believe her boss? The boss lady had to fill the position while Denise was gone and just didn’t open it back up to her when she got back. I mean wouldn’t she lie to look better after what I’m sure was a public relations nightmare. I’m sticking with Denise on this one.