Yes!!! PVRS has a new Superintendent!!

Congrats Jonathan Scagel, we looked into your history and are very happy with this choice. You have the Teachers, Students and Taxpayers backing you up. Your commitment and foresight for the love of our school is what PVRS  is so desperately in need of. So much has been lost, great teachers, our beloved Mike Duprey and Cathy HH, Mr. Mullin, ad so many others. Just like our paws that once stood bright when you drove into PVRS and are now gone, so was our spirit. I feel you will put life back into what has been lost and we will once again be the great school we once were in time.

As for you Pat and Young, and the rest of this SC  the destruction you allowed to our schools will not be forgotten. Your failure to not only do your jobs and due diligence on Miller is unforgivable. You were given proof of her abilities and you ignored not only us, but teachers and Administrators. You allowed careers to be destroyed and listened to lies because people spoke out against her. You betrayed our teachers and students and taxpayers. YOU and only you are to blame for this mess we are in. You will get yours at the next elections and it will be heard loud and strong. For that we will be back.

As for you Miller, your destruction ends here. We will not allow you to destroy another school and will speak out every chance we get. Hopefully the State will also see you for what you are and stop you as well. We are strong we will come back stronger than ever. Our job here is done your gone.You cannot leave fast enough.

Again, Jonathan Scagel thank you for taking  this step, it won't be easy you have to deal with a incompetent SC but, just remember we have your back. Now, let the healing begin!!

                                              WE ARE THE PANTHERS






NORTHFIELD — Jonathan Scagel will be the interim superintendent of the Pioneer Valley Regional School District. He starts in July with a one-year contract that can be extended for another year.
Scagel has been a teacher at Pioneer Valley Regional School for a year, and has 24 years of prior experience working in various teaching and administrative positions, he said. He is the youngest of the four candidates interviewed by the School Committee on Tuesday night, and the only one without experience as a superintendent. The other candidates were Bob Clancy, principal at Pearl Rhodes Elementary School in Leyden and Bernardston Elementary School; Robert Gazda, a former superintendent and principal of the Gilbert School, a private school for grades 7-12 in Winstead, Conn. and Suzanne Scallion, a former superintendent for Westfield public schools from 2011 until her retirement in 2016.
“I can see what a great place this school is. I know we’re in a little bit of trouble right now, but I can see the potential,” Scagel said to the School Committee. “I can see the passion. I can hear it from the School Committee members, from the taxpayers. They want something better for this district and I feel that I can get us there. I feel that I have the leadership ability. I’m a strong leader. I’m a creative, effective leader that has a vision for Pioneer. I feel that I can inspire the taxpayers, you (the School Committee), the community members, the parents, the families and most importantly, the students to achieve that vision, because they deserve it.”
The School Committee did not disregard Scagel’s lack of experience as a superintendent, especially as it would relate to the difficult decisions that the interim superintendent will almost definitely have to make in the coming year to cut staff, programs or both. Scagel’s familiarity with the staff of Pioneer Valley Regional School, some committee members said, could be a double-edged sword.
“It’s hard to ask someone to cut a friend’s job,” Chairwoman Pat Shearer warned.

But all committee members were impressed by Scagel’s enthusiasm and his unorthodox ideas, like installing solar panels on the school buildings, working with local and national businesses to sponsor technology purchases and building renovations and hiring a grant writer whose salary would come directly out of the grants he or she obtains for the district.
Just as important as Scagel’s apparent capability, the committee said, is his familiarity with the district and the inner workings of the school.
“We need somebody from within because healing comes from within,” said committee member Jim Bell, who coaches track at Pioneer Valley Regional School.
“I really want the passion and the energy and the youthfulness,” said committee member John Rodgers. “I can take that over experience any day.”
Contact Max Marcus at mmarcus@recorder.com or 413-772-0261 ext. 261.