Is Commissioner Mary Dicke Biased Against Men?

Some astonishing results!

In listening to one particular session, we noticed the following about Pierce County Commissioner Mary Dicke:

• She let the woman's attorney talk for 8 minutes straight without one single interruption. That's a bit of talking for a simple educational modification.
• Mary Dicke wouldn't let the man's attorney speak for more than 1.5 minutes before rudely interrupting him, and she interrupted him 5 times in 5 minutes.

This particular session was about an ADHD child who is being almost abandoned by his mother. She want's nothing to do with helping him, and his current school (and the father) have been begging her to start helping her son with his daily work and homework.
In response, she wants to pull the son out of school completely (so she doesn't have to listed to the teachers anymore), and send him to the Internet Academy. This will make it so he stays home, alone, all day long, with NO supervision.

The father asked the court to let the son come to his house. The father was a substitute teacher for a while, so knows a bit on how to help the son. The mother doesn't want that, because she sees it as a first-strike against her cash-cow child support payments.

Pierce County Commissioner Mary Dicke decided that it would be better for the ADHD child to stay at his mother's home ALONE all day long, all school year long, rather than go to the father's house where adequate supervision would have been available.

Now, granted, the father was only a temporary teacher, but isn't that better than NOTHING?

In fact, this is what happened:

Question from father's attorney:
What you seem to be asking is that it's better for a child to be left at home alone if it's not with a Master's-level, certified instructor?

Commissioner Mary Dicke answer:
Your information is misleading (meaning the teaching certificate attached to the paperwork). How can a certificate from a school be misleading?
(Commissioner Mary Dicke must have been late in getting back to her Solitaire game...)

AND, Judge Kitty van Doornick upheld the ruling from Commissioner Mary Dicke, deciding that the health and welfare of the child was not as important as whether or not the parents can get along.

Stay tuned. We are gathering information on both of these people to see how they have ruled in other cases. We will update you as we have more information.