Pat Shearer, I hope you saw for yourself this day what Mike Duprey means to not only these children but others as well. For a brief moment in time PVRS was once again a proud school. The air was full of love and spirit.
These past two years have been very hard on these students and the ones left behind. They have endured sadness and great losses. Once a school full of hope and happiness and fun to go to turned into mourning and dread and thanks to Mike Duprey for the last few moments for this class at least it was a time of high spirits and hope.
Sadly for those left behind they will endure more loss with Cathy HH now gone and beloved teachers as well. These people cannot be replaced with these kids or others and you will continue down the wrong path till you return to this school and these children what has been taken from them.
High School is a time of memories and fun and learning with teachers who support and care about your future, and you are taking the heart of PVRS and destroying it .These kids do not want to be here anymore and the families do not want their kids here anymore.
Pat for once stand up and do whats right for the school and the kids and fix what you have done. The Superintendent , Principal and V principal are all bad for this school and its spirit . Can't you not see this? It's only gonna get worst for you till you fix what you have undone.
Look at the mess the school is in , the Union is involved and soon the state will be as well. This is not leadership this is destruction and poor leadership.
I warned you a year ago about the destruction Miller leaves in her path and I warned you about Mike Duprey not being at the school. I am now warning you if you do not undo this mess and bring back Mike and Cathy HH and these teachers PVRS will self destruct and you will have no school to be a committee for . Letters have been written to the state by parents and others. It's a matter of time before they will take over this school.
Be the leader Pat Shearer you were voted in to be.
After being met with overwhelming applause from 70 Pioneer Valley Regional School students reunited with their former vice principal, Mike Duprey advised them all to be an 11 on a scale of one to 10.
Elevens, Duprey explained at Friday’s commencement, are trustworthy, dependable, morally strong, respectful leaders who do the right thing all the time, even when criticized, and who hold themselves to the highest possible standards.
“To do this, you need to establish your own value system,” he said. “Anyone can be an 11, it’s just a matter of attitude.”
“Everyone must look inward and accept the good or bad in their own choices,” Duprey said. “I am responsible for my greatness, and my own failures.”
Looking back on her six years at Pioneer, Salutatorian Elizabeth Sweeney remembered the community being “unlike any other,” and asked her departing friends to find what makes them unique.
“Shed that special light of yours on the world around you,” she said. “Spread your greatness all over.”
