Nope not done yet

Nice Mess Pat. You and the SC lack of ethics and inability to handle situations have caused this disaster. YOU and MILLER destroyed these schools and whats worst were you were warned. First, you force out Dorion, than you decided to SETTLE with Miller knowing you were warned by Templeton and your own committee not to hire her, than.....the meeting in May 2015 you heard from hundreds of people to end this. We lost teachers, Admins, and more teachers and you just allowed the dominoes to fall. You protected Miller knowing full well what was going on. It should be YOU and this SC who pay this money that's needed or be made to work free till it is and of course supervised. Instead, you put this on taxpayers. SHAME ON YOU ALL.
Pat you and this SC heard about the abuse from Administrators Miller was causing and teachers and all you said was and I quote " what do you want me to do? It would cost us over 200,000.00 to pay out her contract" No concern for teachers or students, NONE!  Not to mention how many times have you been sued? Do taxpayers know about this or what you did to Mike Duprey? I am betting not, but we do :)
A once great happy school full of pride and spirit has now become rubble. GREAT JOB! You're at least good at destruction. 
ALL of this is on you Pat Shearer, ALL OF IT! If you had an ounce of respect for yourself, this school or its facility you would step down before you do more damage.

                                                  NOPE, not done yet.




NORTHFIELD — A draft of a new Pioneer Valley Regional School District agreement should be ready by the end of the year, and it may eliminate a section that requires local elementary schools in each town.
The draft is being developed by Stephen Hemman, assistant director of the Massachusetts Association of Regional Schools, and his team of consultants hired by Pioneer’s HEART Committee. The consultants are to study and rewrite the district agreement. Hemman has been in contact with the HEART Committee for about a month, he said, but the consultants are only now beginning their work of reviewing the agreement.
“It’s going to be a very open process, very transparent so everyone sees it,” Hemman said.
The process will involve community meetings explaining what sections were changed, what was added and what was removed, Hemman said. He expects to have a draft of the agreement ready to present in community meetings by October or November.
The consultants’ work is partly directed by the HEART Committee’s requests. Among a change considered is the removal of the section requiring each town to have its own elementary school.

“Removing that section would open up options for the School Committee to look at,” said HEART Committee member Bob Keir. “There’s no requirement (to close schools) involved, but it opens up options.”
He added: “We’ve been dragging our feet, dragging our feet, dragging our feet for months and months and months, and I feel it’s time to take a stand.”

But Leyden and Warwick’s elementary schools won’t necessarily be doomed without that protecting requirement of the district agreement, Hemman said. There are options for individual towns to fund their own elementary schools without withdrawing from the district, options that can be incorporated into the new district agreement.
The issue of closing smaller elementary schools has come up again most recently as the district has discovered it has been running a $1 million deficit, and is now under pressure by the sate to find ways to rein in spending over the next two years. Closing elementary schools in Leyden or Warwick might be seen as a providing significant cost savings, but likely be resisted by the individual towns for whom local schools are a major source of community pride and identity.
“If it’s an expensive school to run and the other towns are having to help subsidize that, they have to look at that and see if they’re willing to pay to keep that open,” Hemman said. “When you have declining enrollments and small numbers, it becomes difficult to provide the types of services that you want for those children. But it’s the idea of having a school in your town. I clearly understand how people feel about having a school in their town.”
Other areas to be reviewed include a recall process for school board members, term limits and a change in the size of the committee.