Do your jobs? You haven't done your jobs in 3 years, you allowed Miller to run rampant and destroy our schools. You allowed teachers careers to be destroyed who were loyal and the best for these kids to be fired because they spoke out against Miller and you! How dare you speak to anyone this way. Ken Mullen is 100 % correct this SC is totally dysfunctional and let us just go over your incompetent email. ( Which I am not so sure you were allowed to write without the rest of the SC involved) But, they will know now.
Teacher Ken Mullen was quoted (Recorder) saying of the School Committee dysfunction, “We need to start exchanging ideas, making connections, coming up with solutions, instead of pointing out problems”. I agree. The School Committee needs to do this. We need to stop taking up valuable meeting time with a continued public comment.WHAT! The public who pay these taxes has every right to speak up and it is your job to listen. We need to deliberate as a body without having ideas opposed by the audience at every turn. We will never do our best four hours into a meeting. Let the committee meet. It is the inaction that comes of heeding every of the public’s admonition not to cut, not to RIF, not to change that got us here.NO, Miller got us here and your inability to listen to the public who warned you of her destruction from day one! Don't you dare put your dysfunctions on us when it was your job to be in control and you haven't been in 3 years! When we heed the public we generate unrealistic paper budgets that can’t obtain. Again WHAT!!!!!! You allowed a new building that cost more than was affordable and than had to be removed costing, even more, unrealistic raises for a first time principal, VP, ASST Superintendent and Superintendent..to name a few and let us not forget a no teacher classroom program. We under budget expenses and we make rosy revenue assumptions. Doing so we fail our mission. The time for hearings is over. ( YOU CANNOT STOP OPEN MEETINGS AND PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD.
My second point is, I think it better that we pick our own poison. From that view I find the message from Chairman Shearer to the committee and many who have written us troubling, “We will only do what the state agencies force the district to do to climb our of the financial hole we are in.” Gads! I bet she meant to assure folk that we are not going to go overboard, we aren’t going to overreact. It sounds too much like what got us here: blind faith, hopeful optimism, denial. We twelve are in this together. Lets work through it, compromise, and get the job done of making and ranking cuts. From there we can seek more funds, track the next year and free up funds we prudently reserved for Unemployment, Health Insurance, Special Needs as we prove we have a doable budget. We can’t risk more losses. Lets be the stewards we were elected to be. WE DID ALLOW YOU TO BE THE STEWARDS YOU WERE SUPPOSE TO BE AND HERE WE ARE. YOUR INCOMPETENT AND THE FACTS HAVE SPOKEN FOR THEMSELVES.
Kind regards,
David Young
http://www.doe.mass.edu/lawsregs/advisory/cm1115gov.html
To the members of the PVRSD School Committee,
I write to you as a current parent of a student within the PVRS district as well as a concerned citizen and would like to pose several questions to the committee, as well as express my deep concern as it pertains to the upcoming interview and selection process regarding the position of Superintendent.
I ask the committee as a whole, what the process entails for interviewing candidates? Is there a standardized interview/selection committee formed when interviewing each candidate and is the said committee using standardized interview questions, so as there is equality and the ability for appropriate comparison of each candidate. Also, is there a rubric to determine your assessment of the candidates during the interview/selection process?
As a citizen/parent that is employed full time, I ask your reasoning for holding the upcoming Superintendent interviews, that are scheduled to begin at 3:45pm, when this is a time when the majority of the community cannot attend this meeting and am concerned that this time was intentionally chosen in order to reduce the amount of citizens able to observe the interviews and minimize the transparency between the committee and citizens during the course of the selection process.
Regarding the amount of time allotted for the interviews, I am interested in knowing why all but one candidate would be provided thirty minutes for an interview, while one candidate is being provided 45 minutes, as it is outlined on the posted meeting agenda.
Lastly, I would like to express my deep concern regarding the fact that this is not the first attempt on the committee’s part to interview selected candidates, and would like to stress the importance of selecting a candidate who is true to the students and community of PVRSD, who is competent and is able to think “outside of the box” to help improve the current state of the district and feel that all of the candidates, EXCEPT for Jon Scagel, would not only create additional stress on the current situation at PVRSD, but have a public history of creating undue stress, executed decisions with negative financial implications, and have lacked complete transparency, while serving other educational districts or in varying educational roles. I respectfully ask that each of you understand the much of the community’s preferred candidate, being Jon Scagel, and take into consideration that as our elected officials you have the ability to create tremendous positive change while collaborating with your community to ensure that moving forward, our students can be educated without compromising the future quality of their education.
Thank you in advance for your time and attention.
Respectfully,
Kristen M. Gonzalez
Reply:
Teacher Ken Mullen was quoted (Recorder) saying of the School Committee dysfunction, “We need to start exchanging ideas, making connections, coming up with solutions, instead of pointing out problems”. I agree. The School Committee needs to do this. We need to stop taking up valuable meeting time with continued public comment. We need to deliberate as a body without having ideas opposed by the audience at every turn. We will never do our best four hours into a meeting. Let the committee meet. It is the inaction that comes of heeding every of the public’s admonition not to cut, not to RIF, not to change that got us here. When we heed the public we generate unrealistic paper budgets that can’t obtain. We underbudget expenses and we make rosy revenue assumptions. Doing so we fail our mission. The time for hearings is over.
My second point is, I think it better that we pick our own poison. From that view I find the message from Chairman Shearer to the committee and many who have written us troubling, “We will only do what the state agencies force the district to do to climb our of the financial hole we are in.” Gads! I bet she meant to assure folk that we are not going to go overboard, we aren’t going to overreact. It sounds too much like what got us here: blind faith, hopeful optimism, denial. We twelve are in this together. Lets work through it, compromise, and get the job done of making and ranking cuts. From there we can seek more funds, track the next year and free up funds we prudently reserved for Unemployment, Health Insurance, Special Needs as we prove we have a doable budget. We can’t risk more losses. Lets be the stewards we were elected to be.
Kind regards,
David Young
WE ARE THE PANTHERS AND WE FIGHT
Perfectly stated, Incompetent and they need to be voted out.
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