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Administration Lies Again and is Caught Violating Federal Student Confidentiality Laws

Inside yesterday's front section of Free Press is an article that AL wrote about the administration's practice since 2012 of listing the initials of the special needs students next to the charges on the Warrants that the School Committee reviews for payment at their public meetings. These documents are in the IQM2 packets, the online posting system for the public meetings.

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. This wasn't a little diss, though, because Mr. Leibowitz' article points out that this has been going on since 2012 when Taymore had Picone start listing things this way. That's hardly a "computer glitch"! That's 4 years of violating federal laws by identifying (ask the DOE, they confirmed this) students via their school and initials. Taymore's assertion that this was a little "glitch" is an outrageous lie, plain and simple. Go look at the online warrants and see for yourself!

This is a Class Action case waiting to be filed, if it hasn't been already. (Forget the useless DOE! They're in the bag with administrators and have a long history of proving they couldn't care less about students or their rights under the law.) This surpasses that fiasco several years ago when previous super and SC discussed in public (making it a public document) a document handed out at the meeting by super that listed all the private information of the charter school students from Melrose in response to the SC's witchhunt to go after them with a public campaign. In this case the SC has been totally complicit, allowing this for the whole time, hardly a "glitch"! Of course it's obvious the SC does not read their materials, let alone do any sort of mandated due diligence. This is really very serious.

As a parent and taxpayer this is a glaring issue demanding accountability and consequences. Beyond the concern about the shoddy trampling of student privacy rights, we are all on the hook the moment anything becomes a potential or actual legal matter. You can be sure that the moment Mr. Leibowitz sent questions to administration, Taymore and Driscoll probably already used taxpayer dollars for attorneys but not informed or asked permission in any sort of public or accountable way. If there are settlements, we won't see them in any accounting documents because they'll be buried in Special Ed "redacted" warrants. The SC and super will make sure to redact the hell out of everything that is supposed to be transparent, while shoddily revealing what is supposed to be protected, confidential information.

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So go to a meeting. Call your own meeting. Stop hiding behind the computer.

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People are not "HIDING BEHIND THEIR COMPUTERS"

Melrose Messages is a forum for taxpayers to express their views without
retaliation from administration.


Attend a meeting - Why so I could speak and have old "PEG LEG" shut me
down at exactly five minutes,

No way - I have too much self respect to be bullied by those fools.

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Ditto.

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What are the circumstances of Aaron leaving the Melrose beat?

It is because he is too good as a reporter? Finally somebody reporting some real news & he's moved to Malden? Did Dolan and that uncouth liar Taymore want him out?

Margaret Driscoll isn't going to miss him. His truth competed directly with the absolute shameless lies that she writes in that blog.

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kudos
So go to a meeting. Call your own meeting. Stop hiding behind the computer.


Hey Kudos! Get out of your mom's basement apartment and get a job!Obviously you haven't exposed yourself to reality in quite a while!

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This is old news. Melrose Messages broke this story back on August 15, 2016.
Kudos to AL for expanding the story, getting a response from CT and bringing the story to those who don't get the news as it breaks on Melrose Messages.

Author: SPED watch

Aug 15, 2016 - 9:34PM

More Federal Violations

Once again, the Melrose School District and School Committee appear to be in violation of The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act(FERPA) as well as the State's Student Records Laws.

For well over a year now, they have been publicly posting SPED students' initials, outplacement school and monthly tuition costs in the monthly school committee agenda packets on the school committee's website http://melrosecityma.iqm2.com/Citizens/calendar.aspx. The identity of these children are readily apparent with the information provided in Cyndy Taymore's monthly budget report included in the agenda packets.

The most recent violation was page 29-32 of the agenda packet for June 28, 2016 where well over a dozen students are identified.

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The reality is most kids that get outplacements are the result of bullying and abusive treatment by either a teacher, para or administrator or all three. The lawyers get involved and the district quietly agrees to an outplacement to a specialty school at 50-60K a year so the child can get a proper education free of abusive treatment from MPS employees. This is certainly a very expensive and short-sighted CT policy but since she is sometimes involved herself, it is usually the most expedient way for her to quietly cover up the mess if retaliation and intimidation against the family haven't worked. Wouldn't it make more sense to just fire the offending employees and replace them with competent staff?

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So Taymore is all apologetic. Yet, the agenda packets are still up on the school committee website tonight...with SPED students initials, outplacement school and tuition costs for all to see. Just great.

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Yes, all true "Time for change," except the common denominator since 2007 is the SPED director, PWL. There were many out-placements that have resulted from this woman's simple and grotesque negligence, which has been noted by many over many years. This simpering overpaid underqualified nightmare gets away with total failures in many areas, starting with the simple communications failures--like refusing to answer phone calls, emails, leading to small problems burgeoning into bigger ones almost invariably. This has been known for years. This gross negligence has been just fine with the last 2 supers because in the end it means that some students end up falling through cracks permanently, never getting the care or services they need and are entitled to, which in PWL's and the super's perverted logic means there's more money leftover for their own purposes. Some families get so upset that they move, which is even better in the minds of these administrative monsters. Many real children with very real problems have been hurt by these monstrous administrative actions (and/or purposely lack thereof).

This super has taken all of this to new horrific lows, putting PWL in charge of "investigations" whenever there's a problem CT wants to have go away, including all 4 of the OCR messes and many others. You can see how well that strategy has worked and if you take even a five-minute glance through the finances you can uncover a fraction of the disastrous financial consequences (legal fees, etc., though you'll be hard-pressed to find the Settlements detailed appropriately because CT and MD have had them totally buried within the SPED line items). In their perverted "wisdom" PWL became the Bullying & Harassment "Officer" for the district, taking over for Buxton, a few years back (speaking of twisted and indefensible administrative decisions).

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Today is September 28th. Despite Cyndy Taymore's assurances to the press that "MPS deeply regrets this error and we took immediate corrective actions as soon as we became aware of it." the SPED student's information is STILL posted on the MPS and school committee website, now that thousands of people have read the article and have had an opportunity to view the private information on the MPS website. So what can be done about this gross example of public shaming of SPED kids and their families who now have the letter "D" for Disability stamped on them in front of the whole community?
Kotin & Crabtree (617)227-7031 )are attorneys who are working on a similar violation in Tewkbury and could be contacted to get and understanding of your rights if you are one of the families that were violated by the MPS administrators.

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Putting it on the site was an egregious "error" (being charitable). Leaving it on the site is a giant Taymore "F*** all of you."

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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.

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As a parent I would be outraged that my family had been associated with THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS, JUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE and NORTHEAST BEHAVIORAL HEALTH. What inferences will people make about the students who have been outed by Taymore and crew when they see this?

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And today the district emails out their Anti-Harassment Statement to the community. What a joke. These people are completely ridiculous.

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All good points. I have not - would not - look at this. I have too much respect for the struggles of parents with children who need special help and their right to privacy. Taymore just doesn't care. My question is why has no one on the SC raised hell about this?

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More lies
And today the district emails out their Anti-Harassment Statement to the community. What a joke. These people are completely ridiculous.


Wouldn't it be nice if Taymore, Lambright and their crew of mis-administrators would actually read their own policy and start abiding by it?


From "Action Needed"

"Today is September 28th. Despite Cyndy Taymore's assurances to the press that "MPS deeply regrets this error and we took immediate corrective actions as soon as we became aware of it." the SPED student's information is STILL posted on the MPS and school committee website, now that thousands of people have read the article and have had an opportunity to view the private information on the MPS website. So what can be done about this gross example of public shaming of SPED kids and their families who now have the letter "D" for Disability stamped on them in front of the whole community?"

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"My question is why has no one on the SC raised hell about this? "

There was one who raised hell about all of these issues, and what was her thanks from the community for that? Belated support and some nice letters to the Free Press from belatedly grateful parents who regretted not having stepped up sooner to do something about the many egregious wrongs committed by these officials, while she bravely and with great care tackled the many issues in every meeting packet.

There is still one voice (2 of you count MM) showing up and bringing the issues forward, Gerry Mroz. And how does this community express its gratitude? By shunning him, voting him (and JDLR) down and allowing the nutjobs on the Committee and BOA to threaten him with police action in order to try and shut him up permanently, the creeps that they are. Glad that the MPD has the sense to know who the real crazies are!

Your question.... Well how is that you could even wonder? Have you taken a look to see the lineup of mentally unstable power-hungry crazies on that committee? Have you looked in the mirror and wondered how you could have voted for any one of them? If you voted for any one of them, you're getting exactly what you deserve. They are just plain awful, and it wouldn't have taken too many brain cells to determine that ahead of voting. The real question is why you would wonder that this bunch would treat everything important with contempt and negligence, bypassing all the huge Red Flags that every one of them displays. The disgraceful bums should all be recalled and the hired ones fired. But that would require that Melrose be something other than the filthy little rabbit hole it's become under these corrupt types with such willing accomplices in the public.

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Wonder as you Wander
Your question.... Well how is that you could even wonder? Have you taken a look to see the lineup of mentally unstable power-hungry crazies on that committee? Have you looked in the mirror and wondered how you could have voted for any one of them? If you voted for any one of them, you're getting exactly what you deserve. They are just plain awful, and it wouldn't have taken too many brain cells to determine that ahead of voting. The real question is why you would wonder that this bunch would treat everything important with contempt and negligence, bypassing all the huge Red Flags that every one of them displays. The disgraceful bums should all be recalled and the hired ones fired. But that would require that Melrose be something other than the filthy little rabbit hole it's become under these corrupt types with such willing accomplices in the public.


In answer to your question - I didn't vote for any of them. My ballot looked like a MHS science exam - almost entirely blank. These idiots aren't even smart enough to cover their own a$$es when confronted by their own complicity in illegal activities, and it all starts - every single bit of it - with that slob in the Mayor's office.

And somehow - isn't this telling - 4.5 million has been found in the school budget to pay for these modulars and for renovations at the Horace Mann. Hello?

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And the Mayor was telling us last year that he wanted an override and later when it failed - he got angry and said that there is no more money for the schools and city side of the budget. Then Taymore got money for her admin raises and the city is going to give teachers raises for the next 3 years. And now we find out he has 4.3 million on top of all those other outlays - to spend on portable classrooms and the school upgrade.

Can we ask the Mayor to be honest about our city budget or is that something he is incapable of? Like most politicians in this state - he is basically dishonest - incapable of being forthright with the residents of Melrose, and is self-serving! What a legacy he is making for himself!

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CT,MA,PWL,RD,SC,MBM and ect...

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Can anyone tell me if they have ever seen CT and MA teeth?

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All IEP"s in Melrose was broken due to no enough subs to cover classrooms.

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Follow your own policy
From "Action Needed"
"Today is September 28th. Despite Cyndy Taymore's assurances to the press that "MPS deeply regrets this error and we took immediate corrective actions as soon as we became aware of it." the SPED student's information is STILL posted on the MPS and school committee website, now that thousands of people have read the article and have had an opportunity to view the private information on the MPS website. So what can be done about this gross example of public shaming of SPED kids and their families who now have the letter "D" for Disability stamped on them in front of the whole community?"

Complete silence from Margaret Driscoll and the school committee on this major violation of Federal and State privacy laws. It is October 7th and STILL the violations continue, despite assurances from Cyndy Taymore on September 23rd that "corrective actions were immediately taken". Meanwhile, SPED student's private information about placements are STILL available on the school district website and school committee website. Maybe Aaron Leibowitz will do a follow-up article on the continuing state and federal privacy law violations and false statements made by CT?

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Hello school committee??
Follow your own policy
From "Action Needed"
"Today is September 28th. Despite Cyndy Taymore's assurances to the press that "MPS deeply regrets this error and we took immediate corrective actions as soon as we became aware of it." the SPED student's information is STILL posted on the MPS and school committee website, now that thousands of people have read the article and have had an opportunity to view the private information on the MPS website. So what can be done about this gross example of public shaming of SPED kids and their families who now have the letter "D" for Disability stamped on them in front of the whole community?"

Complete silence from Margaret Driscoll and the school committee on this major violation of Federal and State privacy laws. It is October 7th and STILL the violations continue, despite assurances from Cyndy Taymore on September 23rd that "corrective actions were immediately taken". Meanwhile, SPED student's private information about placements are STILL available on the school district website and school committee website. Maybe Aaron Leibowitz will do a follow-up article on the continuing state and federal privacy law violations and false statements made by CT?
I guess our superintendent and Margaret Driscoll don't get it. Why do we keep on going down this road?It's very easy to answer this question. Apparently they're not checking with the city solicitor or the school attorney. As a mom, thats' my thoughts. But how about the privacy of the student?

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These guys at MPS are screwed...and stupid. Look at what happened in Tewksbury:
http://homenewshere.com/tewksbury_town_crier/news/article_6222c6dc-da0d-11e4-972f-bf171ca1b609.html

At least Tewksbury administrators were smart enough to take down the information immediately. Here we are three weeks after CT reports to the press that "the mistake was immediately corrected" and the prohibited info is still on the MPS and school committee websites!

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Hello school committee??
These guys at MPS are screwed...and stupid. Look at what happened in Tewksbury:
http://homenewshere.com/tewksbury_town_crier/news/article_6222c6dc-da0d-11e4-972f-bf171ca1b609.html

At least Tewksbury administrators were smart enough to take down the information immediately. Here we are three weeks after CT reports to the press that "the mistake was immediately corrected" and the prohibited info is still on the MPS and school committee websites!
This superintendent needs to go.

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Laws for this and teachers, administration, paras, nurses and secretaries still continue to talk about students and parents behind closed doors. As a mom I worry about this.

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Hello school committee??
These guys at MPS are screwed...and stupid. Look at what happened in Tewksbury:
http://homenewshere.com/tewksbury_town_crier/news/article_6222c6dc-da0d-11e4-972f-bf171ca1b609.html

At least Tewksbury administrators were smart enough to take down the information immediately. Here we are three weeks after CT reports to the press that "the mistake was immediately corrected" and the prohibited info is still on the MPS and school committee websites!





Cyndi Taymore needs to leave Melrose quickly not a day to soon.

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Ouch
As a parent I would be outraged that my family had been associated with THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS, JUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE and NORTHEAST BEHAVIORAL HEALTH. What inferences will people make about the students who have been outed by Taymore and crew when they see this?


It is October 13th and unbelievably, the prohibited confidential information is STILL up on the school committee website and MPS website! Thanks Cyndy Taymore!! Thanks Margaret Driscoll![:|]

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Of course they won't remove the information. It would be an admission they did something wrong. That wouldn't fit with their PR strategy.

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http://www.doe.mass.edu/pqa/prs/

Here's the website. File a complaint about the very obvious FERPA violations. In the past the "Program Quality Assurance" department was a bad joke, totally in the bag with administrators statewide. However, it's maybe worth a try. In the past the staff attorneys were mostly those hired by Weld, and they were wed to the Driscoll model, meaning that no complaint against an administrator would be given a fair shake and parents nearly always lost. Only those who hired an attorney could hope to prevail, and many eventually did. But it might be better now. Doubtful, but there are so few avenues, it is worth a try, or should be, since children's well-being and privacy have definitely been compromised by the unethical bunch of creeps running the district.

And no, I won't do it for you.

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Are the rules and regs being discussed here all state stuff, and if they are, is there a federal equivalent? IF you get no satisfaction from the city or the state, perhaps there is a federal avenue open - a federal civil rights complaint maybe? Seems to me having that information on the website might be a civil rights violation.

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Where is this information that taymore won't take down so I can look at it and see if something can be done

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Its in the agenda packets for the school committee meetings in the warrant lists going back to 2012. But they already about this but have done nothing. Anyhow, the damage is done. Just saying....

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No Surprise
Of course they won't remove the information. It would be an admission they did something wrong. That wouldn't fit with their PR strategy.

Although removing the info could be taken to signify acknowledgement of a problem, Why can't the same computer glitch that Taymore blamed the release of info on be used remove it? Spontaneous computer error.

Can't the husband of the city hall employee do something? Anything?

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Its simple, really. print the pdfs out, blackout the personally identifiable information with the marker and repost it. Duh.

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Simple
Its simple, really. print the pdfs out, blackout the personally identifiable information with the marker and repost it. Duh.


It's even simpler. Those initials were put in on purpose by administration, not by the institutions seeking tuition payments. "Computer glitch" is an outright lie, of course, because this was/is a specific entry by an incompetent and law-breaking administration that couldn't care less about students being affected. It is a simple matter of not having that field appear in the MUNIS printout or being transferred to the Excel spreadsheets (another poor time-wasting practice of incompetent administrators, certainly not likely to be fixed by the $134,000 new business mismanager MF with zero qualifications and who is totally beholden to CT for her plum job). Ironically they do this to keep track of which tuition goes with which special needs student (incompetent fools that they are), while at the same time they hide all of the Settlements made to attorneys and parents of this same population for their major screw-ups, even though they are required to list them.

Once again the only reason there have been no legal consequences is that it requires a parent to file a legal complaint, which would not be difficult but not anyone's priority in Melrose. The district repeatedly is breaking the law and flips us the bird because they believe they are never going to face any consequences. Someday it will happen, and we as taxpayers will all be paying dearly. There won't be any issue of a budget at that point because the amounts will be enormous and the publicity beyond repair. Meanwhile, the SC and the officials blather on and on about their "goal-setting" and other assorted nonsense, and everyone (citizens and officials) are totally uninterested in the giant elephants in the room, the enormity of the unmanaged issues lurking for some small slip-up that will force them to a head.

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Today is October 17 and the personally identifiable information on students and their outplacements is still available on the school website and school committee website in violation of Federal and State FERPA laws despite Cyndy Taymore's insistence that she had removed the information over three weeks ago. Will violation this come up during tomorrow's SC meeting?

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Facts only please
Today is October 17 and the personally identifiable information on students and their outplacements is still available on the school website and school committee website in violation of Federal and State FERPA laws despite Cyndy Taymore's insistence that she had removed the information over three weeks ago. Will violation this come up during tomorrow's SC meeting?

Did it? One of the parents should file.

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No, of course it did not come up Tuesday night. That would indicate they actually take the matter with some degree of seriously, something that will only happen after a complaint is filed. File a FERPA complaint with Dept. of Ed.

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Here is the link to file a complaint: http://familypolicy.ed.gov/complaint-form

BTW, the information is STILL up on the School Committee website and the District website, and even the City of Melrose Website!!

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FERPA link
Here is the link to file a complaint: http://familypolicy.ed.gov/complaint-form

BTW, the information is STILL up on the School Committee website and the District website, and even the City of Melrose Website!!


Why should this be any different than all the other violations? The student handbook is still in violation of state law in regards to how they handle disciplinary actions against students - and this has been pointed out to them in open meetings and by written letters; we still have OCR investigations proceedings, as well as open meeting law violations and complaints. First Kristin Thorp and now Margaret Driscoll have totally corrupted the school committee and its activities! Meanwhile are legal bills are piling up!

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You can not believe the cover ups and lies the schools are telling the parents of special needs students. People are stupid and believe what they are telling them which should be another violation.

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Violating
You can not believe the cover ups and lies the schools are telling the parents of special needs students. People are stupid and believe what they are telling them which should be another violation.
Melrose admins rely on the "NO" answer to the adage, "If you violate the law and can get away with it, is it really a violation?"

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Trees in the Forest
Violating
You can not believe the cover ups and lies the schools are telling the parents of special needs students. People are stupid and believe what they are telling them which should be another violation.
Melrose admins rely on the "NO" answer to the adage, "If you violate the law and can get away with it, is it really a violation?"


Melrose is a perfect example of a take-off on the saying..."you can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can fool all the people, all of the time"! Taymore and the school committee prove that every day!

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Violating
You can not believe the cover ups and lies the schools are telling the parents of special needs students. People are stupid and believe what they are telling them which should be another violation.


A favorite of CT's A team: Forcing parents of SPED students who are outplaced for special services to find, access and fund their child's foreign language classes for meet the foreign language graduation requirement. The scam is that they tell the parents that they have "waived" the requirement for graduation for the child (gee, thanks). Unfortunately, colleges require 2 years of foreign language for admission.

Most parents either don't understand that denying a student with a disability access to the same education and resources (FAPE) as other students is a serious violation of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
(link)http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/edlite-FAPE504.html

Either that or they are not in a position to complain any more because they have already been through the MPS retaliation grinder and are not in the mood for more MPS illegal intimidation against their families.

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Violating
You can not believe the cover ups and lies the schools are telling the parents of special needs students. People are stupid and believe what they are telling them which should be another violation.




Follow the rules and laws Melrose. Rules are meant to help us, laws keep us

from getting in trouble. When you stop following them, you end up like

Melrose all legal troubles. Thanks Mayor, CT, and SC.

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I didn't realize this string was still active, seeing that Taymore never took down the personal, private information of the outplaced SPED students. The article by Aaron Leibowitz in this string was quite informative. Why did CT never take down the information in violation of State and FED FERPA laws? Why didn't the city solicitor demand that the information in violation of state and federal privacy laws be taken down immediately? Why is the information still there after seven months? IS Aaron doing a follow up article? What is the legal exposure for the city (ie., the tax payers)? Has the mayor weighed in on this?

Finally, why is the school committee and school department such a complete clusterflock in Melrose?

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Aaron left Melrose quite a while ago and now covers only Malden, so no, he will not be doing any followup reporting.

You seem to be fairly in the dark. Do you really think it's a legitimate question about why the school committee and administration are so corrupt and incompetent? Not meaning to be condescending, if you've followed anything at all and have even half a brain, it should have been obvious that not one of the individuals in charge of the district, elected or hired, has a single ounce of integrity or genuine caring.

They are only about self-promotion and always were. They have no shame and no genuine concern or understanding of their lawful role. They are frauds, all of them currently.

And this stupid Melrose public does nothing to hold them to account, not ever. Those who have fought for everyone else's kids--Gerry, Carrie, J.D. for a while, and a handful of other citizens--are/were always left hanging in the breeze, while the orks like RD, MD, KT, and their MEF sycophants are allowed free rein to promote their alternate-reality propaganda and manipulate all the gullible elementary parents to do their bidding and tell them continuously how great they are. They even went behind closed doors and hired a PR firm using taxpayer dollars to keep the "fake news" stories and trumped-up awards (quite literally--these frauds are as dangerous on a local level as the ignorant and hateful monster about to take his oath Friday) continuously front and center. Just read the bogus "news" as reported by MD on her sickening blog "Taking Notes," if you are really that new or out of the loop and find this hard to fathom. In fact The Donald could take lessons from The Margaret or The Rob when it comes to fake reporting, manipulation and/or suppression of the facts, contempt for and ignorance of The First Amendment, or a myriad of other basic rights and laws/regulations they wantonly trample (SPED, employment laws, facility requirements, safety regulations, you name it, they've stomped on them). DT would also understand the never-ending diarrhea of superlatives with which they adorn themselves and their efforts, even when they've just been found in egregious violation, as they did when they unveiled the glorious award for CT they trumped up for her just after the OCR findings were published in all the regional press in which she was ultimately at fault. Now they even have their own actual felon on the SC, along with an "actual scientist" (LOL), and a couple of frenetic head-bobber suck-ups. Shameless frauds. And yes, "complete clusterflock," as it were.

Re: Administration Lies Again and is Caught Violating Federal Student Confidentiality Laws

They need to clean the swap in Melrose. School are violate every single day in the middle school. The high school children are not learning they are put in a room and learn on your own. NO teachers or subs. so learn for yourself. Let the taxes and the water bill keep going up and salaries keep going down.

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