This is a teachers worst nightmare a 2 hour delay. Kids are so off and not helpful to the teachers. CT should try being in the schools to see what goes on nothing. In our school the kids never learn a thing because its not long enough the blocks.

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.

Get out if you can because sad days are coming for the city of Melrose.

Sped teachers if it passes then you will need to teach a class so start looking to be a classroom teacher.

Your taxes are going to the lawsuits the school has brought to the city. So much happened when Cyndi and Naomi hung out together. Management and union presidents should not be hanging out with each other that's a conflict of interest. Like so many of the teachers and paras are doing to get what they want and do.[Wacko]

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.

What a brilliant idea. You should have mentioned this long ago!

The SC added 3 more years to CT contract. Dolan should not be a part of the SC. Why is he leaving this city in such enormous debt?

Thinking before you speak or do something. It's about knowing that every day, the choices we make can and will affect our lives. It's about being accountable for our choices in life. We have the right to make our decisions every day, and every day is a new day. But will the school committee make good decisions and the superintendent Cyndy Taymore?

It's about being accountable.No accountable

The super is having paras fill out a survey's about how the schools and principals are doing. If you want to take it privately you need to fill in 50 letters to get to fill it out what a joke. If you want the school to see your email its just www/ mass edu/edeval/part 111 appx B/ Principal are telling the paras to go on and brag how well the school and principals are doing another joke all to protect themselves.

It's about being accountable.

The City of Melrose has a long way to go with all the legal fees first. The SC is more to blame than the superintendent. Our School Committee is Cyndi's boss and has the power to let her go at anytime. What has to happen for someone to read into this major problem in Melrose. CT hired all the principals since she has been in Melrose.

The survey is going to the superintendent. What person is going to say the school sucks and the principal too. They have your email because it was sent to you. This is how Melrose works so no more lawsuits. The city is intimidating the staff and the butt-kissers are writing what the city wants to hear.

Melrose should do a survey to the passed year employers who left the district. Instead management only emails the butt-kissers in the system. The butt-kissers are NOT asked to do extra duties or to leave the child they are with.[Confused]

I am sure you are correct the attendants is at a low in Melrose for the employees.

Mayor Dolan was warned by a very important person to not take CT and MA and then said you will be sorry. Mayor Dolan didn't listen and now the schools in Melrose aren't at the standard grade level. Explaining that teachers are not applying themselves in the work force. I am sure Mayor Dolan hears those words over and over again.

Teachers this will start happening in two years no more IEPs. So get the seniority list ready for sped teacher to fit in a classroom. Co-teaching never works because teachers want to be the boss of the classroom.

It's about being accountable Mayor Dolan.What has to happen for someone to read into this major problem in Melrose. CT hired all the principals since she has been in Melrose.No accountable.

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.

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!

Attention parents. Lesson to be learned: Change.Just think about the fact.Respect The Rights Of Others. Treat others as you want to be treated, everyone has a right to live in the same world you live in. If only that was true in the schools in Melrose.Lesson to be learned: Change.Sorry...don't depend on newspapers uncovering this type of corruption - Bringing these issues to light might affect housing pricing and sales!

They were forewarned by former school committee member Carrie Kourkomelis but did not heed her warnings.

It's amazing how things change
When people let you down.

The Mayor and his cronies, on the other hand, continue to tout the system as "incredible", and the Super as "exemplary", when they are anything but.

Come on - plagarizing a message board post?

Hate to say it but voters did this to themselves. They allowed and continue to allow Mayor Dolan, Margaret Driscoll Superintendent Taymore and the Gutless SC members get away with using tax payer money set aside to teach children and instead, diverted it to the tune of almost $1000 a month to a "fake news" PR Agency to spin lies, create fake awards for Melrose SC members and administrators under scrutiny or investigation by the Feds and State investigators. Just like their advertisements say: "Guilfoil Public Relations: "FOR THOSE WHO NEED IT MOST". PR, media, and CRISIS MANAGEMENT for police, fire, government, and small business. WHEN YOU NEED HELP, Call John Guilfoil". These people had a lot of misdeeds to cover up.

A reminder, no one publically exposed a child's personally identifiable information here, except the school committee and superintendent of schools. They have publically acknowledged the unlawful action and falsely claimed publicly that they had removed the information. They all( the superintendent, SC chair, Mayor Dolan, city solicitor and all SC members) have been made aware the information is still on IQM2 and have defiantly decided not to take it down even though they are in violation of State and Federal laws that protect children and their identities. This reckless and illegal behavior is harming children and their families every day it is still publicly available.

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?

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.

This school committee, school superintendent and city solicitor are so stupid (or openly brazen) that they continue to this day to illegally expose personally identifiable information to the general public about specific outplaced SPED students, their outplacements and tuition fees on the school department's website (IQ2M ) in violation of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (20 U.S.C. § 1232g; 34 CFR Part 99) as pointed out several months ago in an article by Mr. Leibowitz (Free Press). Oddly enough, Cyndy Taymore admitted to this and falsely stated that they immediately took action to correct the mistake'" That was months ago and the violative information is still on the Melrose School Department's website for the world to see. FERPA is a Federal law that protects the privacy of student education records and information. Schools risk federal funding if they fail to take action to protect student's and family's personal information.

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, their own interests, and children's rights take a seat in the back of the bus.

The phone number is 781-2160 and her name is Patricia White-Lambright or 781-979-2294 that is the Superintendent Of School and her name is Cyndi Taymore.

Melrose takes years to wake up. To long the super has been here more damage she is doing.

"Patricia White-Lambright" oh, you mean the mysterious no-show so-called Assistant Superintendent? You can find Carmen San Diego easier than finding this fraud! Cyndy is obviously keeping this incompetent embarrassment from being trotted out to do presentations. Too bad she doesn't do that with herself, also, because she is worse than embarrassing but actually a public menace.

The principal at the Roosevelt has had more teachers leave her school since any other school in Melrose. Hope super is looking at the decline and the absents since she has been put in this school.

Join together as a village and save out kids.
Call The Department of Education and file a complaint.
Call Donna Fienberg @ 781-338-3731
THE MORE PEOPLE THAT DO THIS THE MORE IT MARKS RECORD!

Many violations at this school and teachers are letting it happen to have management like them and not harass those teachers. Call PWL maybe she will start answer the phone now that they have the attorney working in central. Parents have no idea what is going on in this school.

Thinking before you speak or do something. It's about knowing that every day, the choices we make can and will affect our lives. It's about being accountable for our choices in life. We have the right to make our decisions every day, and every day is a new day. But will the school committee make good decisions and the superintendent Cyndy Taymore?

The phone number781.979-2160 and her name is Patricia White-Lambright .called Asst Superintendent

Who else has had it with the bull Mr. Conway spews? Please join forces and get him out to protect the kids of the city. He targets kids and doesn't stop. Parents are leaving the school system after middle school because they can't take it. Join together as a village and save out kids.
Call The Department of Education and file a complaint.
Call Donna Fienberg @ 781-338-3731
THE MORE PEOPLE THAT DO THIS THE MORE IT MARKS HIS RECORD!!!

Pat White Lambright, call you back? Don't make me laugh! There are dozens of official civil rights complaints that were filed with Ms. Lambright or superintendent CT prior to the Office of Civil Rights investigating the Melrose school department (including mine). None have been investigated, nor outcome letters sent to parents with investigation findings or resolution as required by Federal Civil Rights laws. These formal civil rights complaints do not go away simply because the superintendent or city solicitor fires off a retaliatory letter or e-mail to the parents alleging some wild story that it was the parents or student that was actually harassing the aggressor and that they should drop their claim unless they want to be charged with harassment. Those of you reading this who have SPED children or have filed a complaint with the District recognize this tactic by now, but take comfort that you are one of many who have received illegal retaliatory correspondence from the superintendent, city solicitor or perhaps even your principal. Others reading this should not be shocked that this illegal behavior by the district goes on routinely. Just look at how the superintendent and SC chair Margaret "I hear angels" Driscoll treats members of our community at school committee meetings.

Parents you need to stand up for your children.

If you look closely at school committee members during meetings, you will notice their hands over their eyes, ears, and mouth. This is so they - "see no evil", "hear no evil", and "speak no evil"

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?

This all started with the the election of arrogant and incompetent school committee members headed by self-serving chairpersons. They dish our enough favors to remain in office for years - developing a school network to ensure re-election for years to come - while parents are too busy trying to scrape by paying little attention to the education of their children. The schools imploding is the only event that will change this formula - which appears on the horizon!

It's about being accountable..What has to happen for someone to read into this major problem in Melrose. The reality is parents are working all day long, raising families.The days of single earner households that can support a family and the 9 to 5 job is over.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?

As long as Taymor and Driscoll have a vocal group of parent supporters as well as all those mother groups - nothing will change! Wish I could be more hopeful!