The termination of a public employee is a "personnel" matter, not a "personal" matter.  Such incidents are not open to the public unless the person terminated wishes to have his/her personnel materials partially or fully disclosed.  So the "we can't talk about it" answer, while frustrating, is correct.  If the incident "played out" as this article describes, I, for one, see no justification for Mr. Roberts' termination.  Other reasons?  You will NOT hear them unless, like Principal Lange in Springfield, Mr. Roberts chooses to have the information made public.

I know nothing of those possible "other reasons."  I do know that, to my knowledge, Mr. Roberts has been a competent, trustworthy public employee.  He's "crossed swords" with the Board of Directors of , at least, oneother entity and been, essentially, terminated because of it.  That doesn't mean he was "wrong" then, and it doesn't mean he's "wrong" now.  The third-party investigation he suggested seems a good idea.......