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Privacy of School Records Laws:

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This school board member never voted to force any accountability by this superintendent when she took egregiously inappropriate actions to protect the teacher, further victimize the student.

CockroachHunter03/02/17 06:19 AM
Especially after the office of civil rights investigations of Melrose schools, Taymore has little credibility on discrimination issues.


Not to mention that Taymore falsely claimed to the Melrose Free Press that she had removed students' personal information violative of Federal FERPA laws, Massachusetts Privacy of School Records Laws: Their names, and outplacements and tuition costs, all still available on the IQM2 page on the school's website for all the snoopers to see. Would you want the whole city to know your child goes to a facility called Home for Little Wanderers or the Justice Resource Institute?

And where has Margaret and the School Committee been during these many months of open and egregious violations of State and Federal Laws?? Surely they were aware of the news article disclosing this serious violation. Did Margaret and her cabal ever care to even check to see that the violative information about our students is still up on there own website? Did our crack legal council and city solicitor ever follow up to ensure the information was in fact removed?? What is wrong with these idiots?? And why have they not fired the Superintendent and City solicitor for gross negligence and potentially exposing the city to multiple law suits?

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On behalf of the taxpayers of Melrose I sincerely apologize for arrogance of Superintendent Cyndy Taymore, City Solicitor and alleged legal counsel for the school department and school committee Robert Van Campen, SC chair Margaret Driscoll and the school committee members. They all are fully aware of the continued illegal activity of publishing childrens' names and the facilities they attend including tuition costs on the Melrose Schools and School Committee websites and for months have done absolutely nothing about taking the private information down. For the children receiving education and services from Home for Little Wanderers, Justice Resource Institute and North east Behavioral Health and many other facilities dealing with SPED and behavioral health, we are sincerely sorry that these a$$es continue to arrogantly violate Federal and State Family Educational Rights and Privacy Laws. It is our responsibility to ensure our elected officials do not brazenly ignore the law, and if they do, we should be taking action if the City's legal counsel fails in his responsibilities.

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Robert Van Campen is the city's liaison to the Mass State Ethics Commission appointed by Mayor Robert Dolan. He is supposed to be policing city employees who commit ethics violations. What a joke. [:-|]

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This private student data is still on IQM2 on the school website and SC website? Taymore told the Free Press MONTHS AGO that she took immediate corrective action when alerted that they were in violation of Family Education Records and Privacy Act (FERPA). Presumably that means she took the private student information down. Apparently, she lied. Or was this another computer glitch??

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Now don't you worry. Our SC chair, Margaret and school committee members including the mayor who just care sooo much about the children will get right on this; yesssirreee....
(laugh here).[:))]

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Robert Van Campen is the city's liaison to the Mass State Ethics Commission appointed by Mayor Robert Dolan. He is supposed to be policing city employees who commit ethics violations.And Privacy of School Records Laws.

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Robert Van Campen is the city's liaison to the Mass State Ethics Commission appointed by Mayor Robert Dolan. He is supposed to be policing city employees who commit ethics violations.And Privacy of School Records Laws.
Melrose always does the proper legal thing. Now, with an abundance of caution they have two lawyers review every action. They never do anything against the law.

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And yet, the private student info is still up on the school's website for the world to see, even though the Melrose Free Press Article came out 6 months ago. So now the Melrose school department, school committee and their so called legal counsel have been in violation of State AND Federal privacy laws, exposing children to open ridicule for half a year. Thanks Cyndy Taymore, Thanks Margaret Driscoll. Thanks Robert VanKampen. Thanks a lot for spitting on our children every day for six months. Sickos all of them.

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It is truly amazing and alarming that the Melrose schools superintendent can be actively and knowingly in violation of the law for over six months and not be fired by the school committee. Truly amazing, but again this is Melrose, where Civil Rights and respect for the law and children's rights take a seat in the back of the bus.

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Melrose officials knowingly violating privacy laws that hurt children and then continue to take no action even though they have publically lied, claiming that they did? This is lawyer's paradise for suing the City and School Department for damages. The school's legal counsel and city solicitor should know this but has done nothing. Isn't that special? The Parents of the children exposed in the Melrose Schools Webpages are probably lining up Attorney Robert K. Crabtee right now. Another slap in the face to Melrose taxpayers who will pay for attorneys to defend these fools and the eventual settlement amount.

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So MASC is rewards a school committee chair who is currently responsible along with the superintendent of schools of:


Actively in violation of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (20 U.S.C. § 1232g laws for illegally disclosing student personal information (names, outplacements and tuition costs of SPED students) on the school committee website and then further failing to remove the prohibited information after falsely assuring the public in the local paper that the information had been removed.

Repeatedly mistreating Melrose citizens speaking during public comment period (you can witness this on MMTV school committee reruns for yourself).

Did I miss anything?How come we putting up with it?

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So MASC is rewards a school committee chair who is currently responsible along with the superintendent of schools of:


Actively in violation of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (20 U.S.C. § 1232g laws for illegally disclosing student personal information (names, outplacements and tuition costs of SPED students) on the school committee website and then further failing to remove the prohibited information after falsely assuring the public in the local paper that the information had been removed.

Repeatedly mistreating Melrose citizens speaking during public comment period (you can witness this on MMTV school committee reruns for yourself).

Did I miss anything?How come we putting up with it?


Because most Melrose residents are ignorant about what is really going on in the schools! And I can't necessarily blame them since the information allowed for public consumption at school committee meetings is strictly controlled by Chair Margaret Driscoll and her Norms and a go-along to get-along school committee. Also, our local newspapers are threatened by the Mayor's office and local realtors if they print negative articles on our school system.

So here we are with countless violations of student rights, OCR violations, lack of proper budgetary reforms, and a school superintendent who should have been thrown out after her first year! What a shame!