It is time to Call for the resignation of Cyndy Taymore.
The school committee will not let her go and admit they made a mistake.Did I miss anything?
Roos
MBM is the perfect henchman for CT who has driven away some of the district's best-ever educators, including NI, who was abused and threatened with punitive action simply for doing her job and standing up for what students need.
KM was never a particularly nice person but was a competent teacher. No doubt she, like so many others (not only at Roos, but certainly there in that chronically mismanaged hellhole), was pushed to the snapping point by a regime that is without scruples or basic understanding of what being a teacher is supposed to mean.
It's no better Ms. PerkyBouncyWindowTreatments JC or Mr. RageMachine MCAD-Generator BC or Mr Blond SS Babblemouth at W, or Ms FileRestrainingOrdersOn10-year-olds at HM or Ms OopsDidn'tMeanToCallDCFonInnocentParentsToDestroyTheirFamilies at L. This chaos has been going on for more than 4 years (more actually, Joe's regime was totally awful in a different kind of way).
Don't get too excited about misbehaving principals in Melrose. In many instances, the city solicitor and the superintendent are directing principals to file false reports against parents and children with the Department of Children and families (DCF), Melrose Police Department, and locals courts, all in an effort to intimidate retaliate against them. sure it is a crime under state and federal laws, but it is often very effective in getting parents to stand down from their complaints. FYI, I didn't realize the HM principal was still around after being caught filing a false police report against parents and their child right after they had complained about an out of control member of her teaching staff. She must have a special relationship with CT. Most educators lose their license/certification and job after pulling such a stunt. But of course, this IS Melrose, where corruption at the highest levels is alive and well.
How about a very public parent petition, which we know will make CT crazy and bring out her fangs, but so what? Why not, if it exposes the problem and gets the public to understand just how corrupt the whole "chain of command" actually is? Why not here?
The superintendent needs to go with all her friends.
None of the administrators have any sense of what they're doing or are supposed to do. They are all first-timers in the jobs. No real experience, no perspective and zero humility.
The superintendent needs to go with all her friends.
Starting working in Wakefield 2015 and its the best move I ever did for myself. Melrose employees are so depressing and butt-kissers.
What is so alarming is that now, thousands of nosy people that read the Free Press have been alerted they can now peruse the MPS website and view the private student information, whereas before the article appeared, only a couple of dozen people, including school committee members may have accessed the information. All thanks to Taymore's carelessness in lying to the reporter that they "took immediate corrective actions as soon as we became aware of it." when in fact, no corrective actions had taken place. Meanwhile, four years worth of students' private information is publicly available on the MPS website to any snoop who cares to look.This superintendent needs to go. What is wrong with the SC not to let her go?Taymore did her usual dancing around the issue and claimed a "computer glitch" implying this was a one-time little blip, totally disrespecting the concern about what amounts to another violation of federal law, this time FERPA.It is feb 26.2017. Change the school superintendent .
It's amazing how things change
When people let you down.
Worked the middle and high school and went to Wakefield in 2011-2012 and its a better place. The staff are more friendly and the schools are happy and no more gossip!
Most people use one screen name and make multiple comments. You use multiple screen names and make one comment ad nauseam. Enough already.
you not been paying attention.
How about a very public parent petition, which we know will make CT crazy and bring out her fangs, but so what? Why not, if it exposes the problem and gets the public to understand just how corrupt the whole "chain of command" actually is? Why not here?This is Melrose Mass 02176.
Why the lack of transparency? Do they not want the public to know nothing.
What did you teach, Alternative English I? Enough already.
The one that none of them can hide a major scandal.So may be it is time for the Call for the resignation of Cyndy Taymore.
Boston METCO
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? Who exactly is running the asylum??
The reality is parents are working all day long, raising families and simply don't have the time to get involved anymore, never mind get to SC meetings only to get abused by Margaret Driscoll and Rob Dolan. The days of single earner households that can support a family and the 9 to 5 job is over.
CT must have been asleep when she hired the principals in the city here its a laughing place and shameful.
The superintendent needs to go with all her friends.Change the school superintendent .
The reality is parents are working all day long, raising families and simply don't have the time to get involved anymore, never mind get to SC meetings only to get abused by Margaret Driscoll and Rob Dolan. The days of single earner households that can support a family and the 9 to 5 job is over.
CT won the battle and more people are leaving. It only hurts your children in the city. So much taxes and discuss that is happening in most of the schools. Principals don't care about staff only parents and mostly PTO ones.
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??
All the weirdo's in the schools are acting out. Staff can't tell who's sincere the principal's, secretaries, paras, custodians, teachers or nurses. I can't understand who's butt-kissing who anymore. So much going on in the high school and no one wants to say its a problem.
This superintendent needs to go.It is time fire her.
More staff leaving the HS at the end of the year. Not enough support from the school, and administration.
LittleBigManRobbie, VanThePompousDunce, GavelingMadge, GoBacktothePlantationCyndy--they'd all be perfect in the Trump administration and would fit right in with the incompetent, lying, malevolent SOBs destroying the country.
Only an ignorant fool, perhaps as malicious, dishonest and self-serving as those now in charge, could propose that "giving him a chance" is a reasonable proposition. With the plethora of actual facts that this administration has misrepresented already, it's amazing that anyone, let alone anyone that has pretentious of being intelligent, could believe this BS still.
Throughout his career, from the casino business to Trump University, to his construct projects that rip off thousands of working folks and their small businesses, Trump has been nothing but a con man.
And again he conned the uneducated to vote against their own interests, and this moral failure is directly harming themselves and their own families. Just look at the winners and losers of his current edicts.
This string needs to die!
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.