It has to sting badly when the majority of your staffers say they have no confidence in you after a year on the job.
Pioneer Valley Regional School’s faculty and support staff overwhelmingly voted “no confidence” in Principal Jean Bacon and Assistant Principal Jennifer Albert Perry as this school year ended.
For Bacon, 95 percent of faculty voted “no confidence” along with 96 percent of support staff. For Albert Perry, 84 percent voted “no confidence” along with 87 percent of support staff.
Pioneer Valley Regional Education Association representatives say they took the pulse of the Pioneer employees because of several complaints over the course of the year that included “general mismanagement and lack of communication,” layoffs that are said to have affected some veteran teachers and “a lack of real response and authentic action” after the faculty presented a survey outlining concerns about the school atmosphere.LISTEN THIS IS PRETTY CLEAR WHERE EVERYONE STANDS AND FOR YOU TO IGNORE THIS AND THINK YOUR GET TOGETHER WILL MAKE IT RIGHT .. AHH THINK AGAIN.}
Also, association leaders said, most educator evaluations conducted by Bacon and Albert Perry came back “extremely negative and resulting in a rating for many teachers as ‘Needs Improvement.’” Some such teachers, she explained, have been teaching anywhere from five to 20 years without receiving bad evaluations.NOW YOU TELL THE TRUTH BACON AND PERRY , MILLER TOLD YOU WHAT TO WRITE BECAUSE SHE WANTED THESE TEACHERS GONE BECAUSE THEY SPOKE UP AGAINST HER AND YOU TWO ARE NOTHING MORE THAN HER PUPPETS!THIS HAS HAPPENED IN HER PAST EMPLOYMENTS SAME MO.
This all comes as the district’s new superintendent, Ruth Miller, has announced she’s going to leave next June after her third year, saying, in essence, that she didn’t sign up to manage a district challenged by shrinking staff and enrollment in tough fiscal times.MILLER IF YOU LEFT SOONER PVRS WOULD NOT BE IN THE MESS ITS IN AND IF WE HAD A RESPONSIBLE SCHOOL COMMITTEE YOU WOULD OF NEVER STEPPED INTO THIS SCHOOL.YOU ALSO KNEW YOUR TIME LIMIT WITH ANY SCHOOL IS 3 YEARS BECAUSE THEY SEE WHO YOU REALLY ARE.
Bacon was hired by Miller with the strong recommendation of a search committee of teachers, School Committee members, students, community members and Assistant Superintendent Gail Healy. She was chosen among 19 applicants. Bacon in turn had the final say in selecting Albert Perry.
The pair came in for both criticism and support at a recent meeting where the no-confidence poll was presented to the school board.
Karen O’Neil, a retired Pioneer science teacher and Leyden resident, told the committee that actions taken by administrators “have lacked protocol, transparency and inclusion of professional partners.”TRUTH
Parent Deborah Potee supported Bacon, saying “I understand change is hard,” in reference to recent layoffs. “I feel very strongly the principal wants what’s best for Pioneer.” Potee said she found Bacon to be open, authentic and up front about the budget’s limitations, while supportive of moving Pioneer forward academically. She asked that community members focus on moving the school forward.
This seems like the right course of action here. In Massachusetts, school boards don’t hire or fire or even evaluate principals and vice principals. So if the goal is to meet the district’s challenges and to improve the school, then it seems the best course of action is for faculty and staff to work with the administrators, to discuss their concerns and seek mutually acceptable solutions.DEBORAH !! YOUR TALKING NONSENSE AND THIS IS ABOUT STUDENTS AND TEACHERS THESE 3 NEED TO GO PERIOD!!!!!!
The school committee, for its part, will be looking for a new superintendent for the Pioneer schools. It needs to find a new leader willing and able to tackle the substantial challenges the district faces, including discontent in the ranks.LETS HOP THIS TIME THEY ACTUALLY DO THEIR JOB
In response to the “no confidence” vote, Bacon professed to understand the faculty’s frustrations.
“I think it’s coming from the difficult year we’ve had, the fact that we’ve been facing these difficult layoffs, and I can totally empathize with faculty feeling frustrated,” she said.BACON YOU WERE WELCOMED AND YOU BLEW IT AND YOU NEED TO GO! HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU NEED TO BE TOLD?
Hoping to move forward, Bacon said she reached out to next year’s faculty to put together what she calls a “transition team” to figure out what faculty need to feel more supported by administrators. Ten faculty members have joined the team. That’s good news and a positive sign that teachers and administrators want to fix the problems, and not just complain.YOU CAN CREATE ALL THE TEAMS YOU WANT IT WILL NOT CHANGE THAT YOU DON'T BELONG HERE OR PERRY.
“I’m really very hopeful that we can put this difficult year behind us and move forward in a positive direction,” Bacon said. I CAN ASSURE YOU IT WILL NOT
We hope so, too.
THIS BACON , PERRY AND MILLER CAN BANK ON, WE ARE WATCHING EVERY MOVE YOU MAKE AND WE WILL REPORT IT . YOUR A DISGRACE TO PIONEER AND WE WILL NO LONGER STAND FOR IT , WE ARE GONNA BE EVERYWHERE.
I look ahead and see many more problems. How are the teachers suppose to teach and help when no student will know the teachers? All they have known is gone along with the safety of what those teachers stood for to them. Are they suppose to ask a teacher on skype?
ReplyDeleteI feel Pioneers days are over and so is the sense of the spirit it was once known for.
Two years ago before Miller school choice was fighting to keep this option open now its no longer a concern. This is a great loss for everyone.
I have followed this blog from day one and one thing holds true Pioneer is lost.