Last spring I talked to two school committee members at the pro-override meetings. They confirmed that salaries and spouses changing jobs were the only reasons why teachers left. They said that's why we had to vote for the 5 million dollars, that teachers would stay with the new contract. Obviously, we had to trust them because the exit interviews were private. The override passed and teachers are still leaving. Feels as if they were lying to us all along.
Anyone who believes that there is a single one of the administrators or school committee members who is credible or well-qualified has a problem. The only possible exception is the MHS principal who is said to be a decent human, though totally inarticulate and poorly educated (he's a former gym teacher, for heaven sake, so forget any ability to discern when it comes to actual academics). Edunonsense is all that any of them can utter, and even at that, they can't manage simple grammar or punctuation (including the outgoing foreign language chair, who was always lousy and one of Joe Casey's poor hires).
Taymore has and always has been a toxic and terrible administrator who makes the worst possible choices for hires. It's no surprise that many are leaving, even the former sycophants who only had a job because no one else but Taymore/Melrose would hire them in the first place, but they've now accrued (at Melrose taxpayer expense) some of the Peter-Principle "qualifications" that can get them bumped up into their next positions of incompetence and earning far more than they are worth. The administrators who are still here are types like the disgusting and proven incompetents like the two assistant superintendents (who've failed at virtually every job opening outside Melrose for which they've applied, hence their remaining here).
Anyone who believed that crap about educator retention being a primary justification for the override is just ill-informed and/or as idiotic and dishonest as those promoting the boondoggle.
This above post has nothing to do with Melrose at all. Someone should take it off immediately!
School problems never solved only becoming worse.
What, throwing more money at it didn’t solve the problems? I’m shocked!