The people should read the book Guilty As Sin, it starts with Bill Clinton. After reading this book you would not allow this country to sink any lower. Trump is looking to do for our country. Hillary would step over her grandmother to get to the oval office.

This article is the best I have read on this string. I work in the schools and its a effect from administration.

A evil women is worst than a evil man.

I hope neither of the two previous posters is an English teacher!

No one wants to hear your comments. You are a anal person and needs to get a life.

I do! Freedom of speech on an open message board - please seek other message boards if you are too offended - otherwise - accept the criteria for posting - anonymity & freedom of speech!

Worked for years at the old Middle School and DH the secretarary would do this favor to a lot of her friends. Then they stopped passing out the absent list. The employees were seeing staffs names not on the list, and should of been marked absent.

I am a first year teacher in Melrose. This string you're able to just type on it and it's not to be graded. I am a mom with three kids trying to do homework, get dinner done, and write on this string. I am hoping the schools get better in Melrose. The anal English teacher can have fun correcting this post...

"This string your able to just type on it and it's not to be graded. "

If this person truly is a teacher, Melrose Schools are in a great deal more trouble than already known.

Hey teacher, it doesn't take an English teacher to know that "your able" is supposed to be "you're able." If this is the writing of a "teacher," this individual is functionally ILLITERATE! "Your" [You're] a true embarrassment who probably couldn't pass the 5th-grade MCAS.

Great Article in Malden News Paper today on Mystiv Valley Charter school. The MTA is representing teachers who MV tried to collect liquidated damages from after taking higher paying jobs at Public Schools. The richest piece of data available is that the Charter has a 29% annual teacher turnover rate since 2009...WTF.

The teacher is a huge bully and she knows it. No one will hire her she will stay in Melrose hoping administation will give in. She talks nice to you and behind your back watch out.

More staff has left Melrose in the past two years than the Charter school. They leave only to come to Melrose and they are here to stay. Bottom of the barrel thats where we are. Sounds like that post was being a bully to that other post be nice.

This should be sent to CT, PWL, MA, SC, MD and Mayor Dolan.

Dad can probably tell them directly.

This superintendent needs to go.

When is Dad going to tell them when its to late. This is a major problem and the SC, CT, Mayor, MA, PWL, MD, and all principals love this. The bulling, snubbing, shunning is sadly in ALL of Melrose schools. Your father can't do a thing this is what the administration LOVES!

How come CT will let a person that works for the school become a teacher without the full degree. Some say if she knows your a hard worker and she likes you she will hire you for a position. Then she lets you finish school so you have the proper degree. My friend has been trying so hard and never gets the position. Maybe she should go to another city instead of Melrose. Anyone have any ideas on what she should do?

No one can tell this ***** what to do, not even your dad.

Heard MBM thought she was doing favors for her friends and told CT. That's why CT didn't even offer her another secretaries job. Why do you think so many employees have a lot of sick days. Or staff will say no one picked up the absent line and BC took care of it.

DH did the same thing at the middle school for her friends and let them come in late and go home early. Most of the staff are gone from the school but left with a lot of absents. Glad someone got to get some money from Melrose.

I knew that was being done for a lot of staff at the MVMMS. The women that


worked in a department store would get the secretary a expensive gift with


the discount and she would not mark them late, absent or dismissed. That's a


old secretaries trick and it worked. Wonder if the secretary that left the


Middle school and went to the Winthrop did that also?

Try Malden Public. Or Medford.

Medford schools are far superior to Melrose, just look at the curriculum.

The teachers, police, fire, should be able to get a make over like the city is in Melrose. It don't matter if its Medford, Melrose, or Malden. Winchester is a great place if you can travel. My friend loves Belmont they are so much for the staff. They have so many programs to have a happy environment in the Belmont Schools.

Over worked and under paid the fire, police and teachers. The respect is so bad for the men and women in these position now. The teachers are just becoming bullies, police ride around doing nothing, the fire department cant wait for their pensions. CT will be soon leaving Melrose with so much depth that Melrose will go close to bankruptcy again. Move on from Melrose if you haven't invest to much time. The teachers are on their cell phones majority of the time I volunteer and see it everyday. Vote yes on question 2.

Please dear God, please tell me this woman is not volunteering in my child's English class.

I'm trying to figure out all these convoluted stories about fraud being committed by school department staff. Why isn't this the big story? We are cutting staff at the High School, cutting services to kids, cutting paras in the kindergarten. And, according to these posters, we have school personnel falsifying time cards and paying staff for days they are not here? That's fraud, and everyone involved should be fired.

I'd love to see the Free Press investigate this.....

Sorry...don't depend on newspapers uncovering this type of corruption - Dolan has them under his thumb! Bringing these issues to light might affect housing pricing and sales!

Sorry don't depend on administration helping staff that are being bullied in the work place. The bulling that goes on in Melrose is unthinkable. I witnessed the other day teachers planning a strategy to hurt a staff member. This don't matter the teachers will sit and laugh at what is going on. The thing that bothers me is I am a teacher and didn't think this existed. Glad I have not invested time in Melrose and will be looking elsewhere.

Stay for the three years in Melrose. Use the administration like they are using you. Then see if at the end of your third year you get hired. You should not stay in Melrose the pay is much lower than other cities. If your young keep looking for another schools. Its good to get your practice and mistakes in the first three years of teaching. Melrose is loaded with first year teachers. Hope the mentors are being helpful and not wishing for failure. When people say it happens everywhere that is not true in Melrose its worse here.

...goes around. Notice how many teachers give notice in July or August leaving the superintendent and principals in the lurch? This is what happens when an administrators disrespect their teachers. Teachers do talk and then the word gets around the educational community that Melrose administrators disrespect their teachers and students as well as parents. Or they could watch this all play out on MMTV school committee meetings as the school committee chair disparages members of the public who speak during public comment.

It's done all the time if they can get away with it. Especially at education station two teachers did fraud but was found out by the leader of education stations. The teachers that did this action are no longer working for education station. They were not hired back the following year. The paper is not going to investigate these actions because its true. Just like Hillary Clinton is going to win the election with all the facts on her. Dolan will not be mayor next year but, everyone said the same thing about Naomi Baline.

When a competent reporter shows up in Melrose and starts reporting the truth about the corruption within city hall and school administration, they are swiftly moved out of town, such as Aaron Leibowitz, who apparently wrote one too many accurate articles about the myriad MPS scandals.

Now I know why my child say's the word God. Please tell me this is not a teacher.

Please let me know who do you report such harm in the work place to the superintendent? I am going to call on this behavior to the Board Of Education. This is real and not a joke. People have lives.

Now, I would like you to put all this information in the facts column and not what I know and not what I wonder. Its pure facts in this dishonest city thanks for your time and information.

Try Wakefield a lot of Melrose staff is going to Wakefield and Malden because they pay more and will allow you to teach and still go to school to get your degree. If you don't have to say you worked in Melrose your resume wont be put in the no pile.

What I said too. Finally a reporter actually reporting & then he's gone.

I would report this to the head of the schools which is the superintendent or her assistance. You have a better chance of hearing back from the superintendent. Or go directly to the SC meeting on Tues. at city hall. Tell them quickly whats happening in your school. The problem is you have 5 minutes to speak then you have to stop. With this situation you will be so humiliated from your staff it might not be worth it.

Aaron had a GREAT story about racism and despicable treatment of black mentors and sped students. He had statements from staff and black mentors. What happened you ask? His editor went with him to see Cyndy and the story was killed. Worse, is those mentors who were honor students will no longer assist in SC's class and the racist teacher was brought into MHS by recently promoted CB as Asst. Principal is still there. Those students are left in her grossly incompetent hands.

Did you see a draft? I would love to read it.

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. Bullying, harassment, shunning, and hostile work place. English is my second languages.

bullying (not bulling)

Why would anyone with an ounce of awareness think that calling the very people responsible for promoting and allowing such conduct, responsible for the "racially hostile environment," as the federal investigators have documented, responsible for the pervasive atmosphere of intimidating staff, parents and students, would be the appropriate authorities to call to report more of this? This is craziness.

You shouldn't be caring how its spelled but care that a staff member is being bullied by you more that likely. So stop correcting my English I am from another country.

When the parents of the young man reported to CT and PWL that their head of the teacher's union had told their son to "go back to the plantation" their actions were dismissive to an extreme, illegal (forcing the child to be in the same room as the accused without a parent present for the "interview" and excuses of the teacher), and totally inappropriate. Those administrative actions were supported by the school committee/mayor and their attorneys (all of whom would have been fired/required to resign in any decent community). But apparently Melrose is no longer a decent community, because these actions have been allowed to stand, even in the face of clear federal findings against them and enormous legal expenses that continue to be accrued. A decent community would have demanded corrective action. It still could, albeit very late and causing further pervasive harm as a result. The community could and should rise up against these creeps who bring such dishonor and harm, but instead people sit by while more "honors" pile up to allow the perpetrators to escape consequences and even reap trumped-up "awards." The shame and disgrace must be shared by those who have allowed it.

Since that time, many more have been bullied (sorry, but the spelling does matter), harassed, dismissed, mistreated--staff, parents, students. The guilty parties continue not only to allow it but in fact to promote it with their "policies" and "programs," including many of those mandated by the US Dept of Civil Rights, by targeting the victims for corrective action instead of focusing on the administrative culprits and holding them accountable. The degradation of the whole system is in rapid motion now, with much circling of the drain. The more awful it is, the more "awards" and pronouncements of its wonderfulness come forward from the hired PR guns. Meanwhile the community continues to slumber, with only the occasional meek and lazy "oh dear" at each new revelation (those that manage to escape beyond the steel trap door of Dolan/Driscoll/Taymore gag orders, that is).

I would like the proper channels even if its in the school department. I type with my phone and then I leave out letters when I press post. That's not the point of the story and to be critical of that is very child like and needs to get a life.

Don't type on your phone then, or learn to read before you proceed. Be more careful before you press post. It actually does matter. It's not child-like to notice or care, and "getting a life" is not an appropriate response. Words matter. Presentation (mode of communication) matters. Sorry, but that's just the way it is. That's why education matters. Poor communication does have consequences in how the message is received. It doesn't mean that the message is any less valid. It just means that it won't have as good a chance to be received the way it was intended.

As for the issue at hand (not sure exactly which one you reference), calling anyone within the school administration is probably a first step that needs to happen for certain legal processes, but it is guaranteed to put a bullseye on you and get little if any positive result (other than some patronizing head-patting, if it even nets that much of a response). So it requires an extra dose of courage if you decide to proceed "through channels." You can find outside channels, like an attorney of your own (best option), the DOE/DESE (who typically report back to local administration and cannot be trusted), the school committee (during public participation--and we all know how that will go, but again, it's a good choice for bringing public awareness and getting public support), the state MCAD, US Office of Civil Rights (2 of them--one with the Justice Department and one via the US Dept of Ed), the media (Globe, Herald, tv/radio, wickedlocal), ACLU, and other agencies that may or may not have the bandwidth to respond.