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Carl Strock THE VIEW FROM HERE
School board family’s boozy photos online
Carl Strock can be reached at 395-3085 or by e-mail at carlstrock@dailygazette.com.

    Photos available on the popular Web site Facebook show Schenectady school board member James R. Casino and his wife, Donna, a teacher, participating in two drinking parties this summer in honor of their son Jimmy, who graduated from Schenectady High School in June.
    One was a graduation party, featuring the slurping of liqueur from a carved block of ice. The photos from that party were posted on July 4.
    The other was identified on the Web site as “Jimmy’s Ho Dunk going away party” and featured a beer keg over which party-goers, including Donna Casino, did assisted handstands, known as “keg stands.” The photos from that event were posted on Aug. 21.
    You can see the photos yourself by looking at the Facebook albums of Donna and her older son Robert. For the photos posted by Donna click on this link:
    http://tinyurl.com/n4cck4
    For those posted by Robert click on this link:
    http://tinyurl.com/mx3b7x
    If you are reading this in the paper rather than online, type those addresses into your browser. In either case you will need to set up a Facebook account, which is easy to do, if you don’t already have one.
    It’s not clear where the parties were held. Some of the photos appear to have been taken in a backyard, where a tent had been erected. Others were taken indoors, some of them in a kitchen. (The Casinos live on Belmont Avenue, near Zoller Elementary School.)
    One of the participants in the festivities was identified in photo captions as J.P. Janiszewski, who is the older son of school board member Jeff Janiszewski. As far as I can determine, he graduated from high school approximately eight years ago.
    In one photo from the graduation party he is shown with his arm around the shoulders of Jimmy Casino, next to another youngster who, like Jimmy, graduated from Schenectady High School in June. The caption, presumably written by Donna Casino, since it’s in her album, reads, “Wasting away in Margaritaville, or should I say Casinoville.”
    Donna is a sixth-grade teacher at Hamilton Elementary School, where she is paid a salary of $59,667 a year, according to payroll information provided by the Teachers’ Retirement System to the Web site SeethroughNY.com.
    At the “Ho Dunk going away party” she is pictured being bodily hoisted by several young men — shoulders and legs — over the beer keg, tongue out, ready to receive a pressurized blast of beer. Youthful colleagues here at the Gazette tell me the position is known in party circles as a “keg stand.”
    The caption to the photo, presumably written by Robert, (it’s in his album), says, “My mom is a champ.”
    Other photos show one young man after another being similarly hoisted into a keg stand, with much merriment by the participants.
    A note by Robert attached to a photo of Donna and the kids gathered around a keg, all of them smiling for the camera, says, “true Schenectady rednecks.”
    At the graduation party, a series of photos taken in what appears to be a kitchen show a bottle of Jagermeister, a sweet 70-proof German liqueur, next to a slab of ice into which a serpentine channel has been carved. Someone pours a shot of the liqueur into the top of the channel and someone else crouches at the lower end to lap it up as it arrives chilled.
    James Casino, the father, is shown lapping, and so is his son Jimmy.
    Other photos show other young people, male and female, hoisting shots and carrying either beer cans or large plastic cups in the vicinity of the beer keg.
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These are just a very few pictures of many that Mr. Strock was referring to:

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You can see the photos yourself by looking at the Facebook albums of Donna and her older son Robert. For the photos posted by Donna click on this link:
    http://tinyurl.com/n4cck4
    For those posted by Robert click on this link:
    http://tinyurl.com/mx3b7x
    If you are reading this in the paper rather than online, type those addresses into your browser. In either case you will need to set up a Facebook account, which is easy to do, if you don’t already have one.

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More crap from the SCD ... when will it end? Both parents should be immediately arrested for providing alcohol to minors - and removed from their positions with the school.

This is incredulous.

I had to double check the source of this story - I can't believe the Gazette actually reported this .. or found it .. or investigated it. It was actually a good story. Not enough to make me want to subscribe, but still a good story.

PS: They've since taken their Facebook page offline - made it private.  Someone must have woken them up with the news.

I hear that Metroplex has contacted Mr. and Mrs. Casino to offer grants and loans to entice them to open yet another gin mill in downtown Schenectady.  One look at these pictures and Ray Gillen sees a demand for more bars in Schenectady.  I agree we need more bars in Schenectady, but what I mean by "bars", are type of bars to cage these animals up.  

Maybe Metroplex should start funding rehab centers in Schenectady for balance.

Those pictures look like future Schenectady Police Officers.

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WAIT, when G Bonnet made mention of one of the sons injecting politics and defending his father, there was a big uproar here? Wow, it is OK to have open season on the families now? OK. At least we are getting more information on the situation.

EXCELLENT job by strock.

The only harm done is if ANY of those kids were under age. And even if they were all of age, where are the brains here for them to post these pictures on facebook. I mean everyone is entitled to do what they want within legal limits....however....in the present SHS climate, that was just poor judgement at best!!!

And GB....I don't think anyone is saying anything, that the family themselves have displayed and brought on themselves. They are the ones who had the party, took pictures and posted them on facebook for the world to see.

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WAIT, when G Bonnet made mention of one of the sons injecting politics and defending his father, there was a big uproar here? Wow, it is OK to have open season on the families now? OK. At least we are getting more information on the situation.

If you can't discern between you comparing the School Board Presidents school aged son to the son of a communist dictator, and Carl Strock showing a School Board member and SHS teacher hosting a possible illegal underage drinking party, I don't know if anybody can help you.

Mr. James Casino is the same moron that nominated Jiffy Jeffy for school bored President -AGAIN! Time to take down the graduation flag? ROTFLMAO!!

  Has he resigned -YET? Clean them all out. MT is right they should both be thrown in prison in the cell next to the "hard working" "family man" who "didn't hurt a fly" aka The Mad Bomber {TM}.

Get Out! Now! And take horrible pisano Jiffy Jeffy with you. Mrs. Casino must also be immediately terminated. What did the other School Bored members know-and when did they know it?

  Great example for the pathetic School Bored? The next School Bored meeting is this Wednesday 7pm at Oneida MS on Oneida Street-see yous there.