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Yes you are right Ms. Taymor! What is the hold up starting this search? Why do we need to pay an expensive firm for this. Is the Chair of the School Committee holding this up? Someone please take over and speak up





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Why the lack of transparency?

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You have every right to be concerned.What's going on for a new superintendent for melrose schools.

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There were other Superintendents who gave their retirement notice the same time as CT and they already have replacement All the good ones will be taken. This SC can never make a decision on anything !!!

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That's part of it. Another factor is that no qualified candidate wants to come here.

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People are surprised by this why? People have been trying for years, in vain unfortunately, to make it known how things are done here.

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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?

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That's part of it. Another factor is that no qualified candidate wants to come here.

CT was asked to resign by Paul Brodeur. Her contract wasn’t up until June 2021. Her comments at the last SC meeting were her way of laying the groundwork for extending her contract by another year. She will not retire this June but will make sure that she gets what she wants. She wants to stay until 2021. PB can’t get all the figures and costs requested by the SC because PDR and the previous administrations covered up, shifted accounts around and lied about $. There is no hope for the City of Melrose or the MPS unless and until PB Fires PDR and RVC. Is RVC still the Deputy Mayor?

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Taymore’s Plan
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That\'s part of it. Another factor is that no qualified candidate wants to come here.

CT was asked to resign by Paul Brodeur. Her contract wasn’t up until June 2021. Her comments at the last SC meeting were her way of laying the groundwork for extending her contract by another year. She will not retire this June but will make sure that she gets what she wants. She wants to stay until 2021. PB can’t get all the figures and costs requested by the SC because PDR and the previous administrations covered up, shifted accounts around and lied about $. There is no hope for the City of Melrose or the MPS unless and until PB Fires PDR and RVC. Is RVC still the Deputy Mayor?
Sure would love to have a discussion with this highly informed and intelligent poster! This all makes perfect sense. Thank you.

It should also be said that PB might be claiming he can't get all the data, which is totally believable, but he himself is someone who has demonstrated over many years that he doesn't care a whole lot about the actual facts of the matter (hence his broad claims and stepping inappropriately into the override support--as did Lewis--both were so wrong to do so!). PB has lived here and been a major player for decades. His claims of not having the data are not credible. Of course he never bothered to step in and help when the true fighters for us/the district (CKK and MM, along with Gerry Mroz) have demanded the true facts, not the public relations spin. PB has always been a no-heavy-lifter, and his utter incoherence at the most recent SC meetings indicates how at-sea he is now that he will be wearing the full mess. He gets more incoherent the more touchy the issues are, where the public might push back.

This last meeting a large contingent of Lincoln School parents came forward with appalling stories of their children's chronic bullying incidences. These families need to understand that these are issues long known in the district, and for which the entire school administration (which the parents still sadly persist in praising) have been aware and have actively covered up, along with going even further and victimizing by having the city solicitor go after the parents (in some cases even trying to call in authorities to threaten the whistleblower parents). Let's see how PB with his pathetic lack of a backbone deals with these issues since he will now be directly implicated with whatever actions or inactions occur.

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Yes, PBC must get rid of PDR and RVC, along with Taymore. One might be tempted to consider them chancres on Melrose government, but for the fact that they are not painless.

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The Washington Post article on MPS and CT is nuts!
Watch this week’s MPS meeting.
Read the Melrose Patch article.
Talk to the parents at Lincoln and every other school about the bullying.
Look at the conditions of the buildings.
How about Principal turnover?
IEP violations and overcrowding weren’t mentioned.
What is the story behind the story about how this article came about?
Maybe Kelly Ann Conway provided “alternative facts”

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NotOneMelrose
Taymore’s Plan
Agree
That\\\\\\\'s part of it. Another factor is that no qualified candidate wants to come here.

CT was asked to resign by Paul Brodeur. Her contract wasn’t up until June 2021. Her comments at the last SC meeting were her way of laying the groundwork for extending her contract by another year. She will not retire this June but will make sure that she gets what she wants. She wants to stay until 2021. PB can’t get all the figures and costs requested by the SC because PDR and the previous administrations covered up, shifted accounts around and lied about $. There is no hope for the City of Melrose or the MPS unless and until PB Fires PDR and RVC. Is RVC still the Deputy Mayor?
Sure would love to have a discussion with this highly informed and intelligent poster! This all makes perfect sense. Thank you.

It should also be said that PB might be claiming he can\'t get all the data, which is totally believable, but he himself is someone who has demonstrated over many years that he doesn\'t care a whole lot about the actual facts of the matter (hence his broad claims and stepping inappropriately into the override support--as did Lewis--both were so wrong to do so!). PB has lived here and been a major player for decades. His claims of not having the data are not credible. Of course he never bothered to step in and help when the true fighters for us/the district (CKK and MM, along with Gerry Mroz) have demanded the true facts, not the public relations spin. PB has always been a no-heavy-lifter, and his utter incoherence at the most recent SC meetings indicates how at-sea he is now that he will be wearing the full mess. He gets more incoherent the more touchy the issues are, where the public might push back.

This last meeting a large contingent of Lincoln School parents came forward with appalling stories of their children\'s chronic bullying incidences. These families need to understand that these are issues long known in the district, and for which the entire school administration (which the parents still sadly persist in praising) have been aware and have actively covered up, along with going even further and victimizing by having the city solicitor go after the parents (in some cases even trying to call in authorities to threaten the whistleblower parents). Let\'s see how PB with his pathetic lack of a backbone deals with these issues since he will now be directly implicated with whatever actions or inactions occur.
Lesson to be learned: Change the school superintendent . short of this nothing changes.

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They DO NOT have full day paraprofessionals in Lincoln K as promised with override

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

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The superintendent needs to go with all her friends.

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Some elementary PTO moms have only constant praise for the school. Doesn't matter how bad something is. They're the first to jump to the defence of the district. Especially when another parent critcizes the school at a PTO meeting, they immediately praise it. Their kid gets to middle school, more of the same thing.

Principals routinely exploit those PTO moms. They take the easy way out. They act like one parent's praise simply cancels out another's criticism. Since there are people on both sides, it's just opinions, nothing more. They don't respond to the criticism. They don't fix the problem. The school doesn't improve.

There are two types of these PTO moms. One drinks the kool-aid all the way through. Because they're kid isn't dying, the school must be great. If nothing else, they're consistent in their selfishness.

The other type is the complete hypocrite. They kiss the principal's butt all the way through elementary and middle school. They say the superintendent is the best. The curriculum director is the best. The teachers are the best. Suddenly, after middle school they send their kid to Malden Catholic or Bishop Fenwick or some other place. I just heard of another kid of a PTO mom leaving the district. His mom was still kissing up to xxxxxx last month. Hypocrite.

It's xxxxxxxx year. There always another bunch.

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District
The superintendent needs to go with all her friends.

“Dr. Adams” will be named the “Interim Super” and then get the job permanently the following year. She is extensively quoted in the Washington Post. Promises made regarding the Override money will not be implemented. The comprehensive review of the entire MPS ( in large part due to the poor planning, management and oversight by Taymore and her “Admin Family”) will then put the Library, Police and Fire on “hold” again and again. The fact that the “Felon” was named SC Chair again is mind boggling. The Fire and Police will once again be given the middle finger by “One Melrose”,

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Can't argue with any of that, especially the part about naming an "interim" superintendent. It's a done deal, which is why the SC seems to be dragging it's feet starting a search for a replacement. There's no need to be in a rush, and they will say at some point they didn't have enough time to conduct an appropriate search, so they're going the "interim" route. Guess what, voters? You've been hoodwinked again.

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The superintendent needs to go with all her friends.

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Super and her "assistants" all need to go.

Taymore should not be allowed to retire in the blaze of glory and sickening praise that this School Committee is guaranteed to try and give her. She is the one who allowed a teacher to get a promotion instead of being fired in disgrace after telling a student to "go back to the plantation," for starters (after which Taymore got a big raise, too).

White-Lambright is personally responsible (irresponsible) for the colossal failures of meeting the needs of those with special needs, for many years, and for many hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars. There are solid reasons she has failed to secure any of the many positions for which she has applied. Any responsible administration would have sent her packing many years ago (and never would have hired her in the first place, as is the case with the entire lot of them, from what can be observed even in a cursory manner).

Adams is personally responsible for the chronic failures in academic success across the district. She was and is an inarticulate (barely literate) babbler of ed nonsense, which she manages to execute as ineffectively as she communicates.

The recent WAPO article put out by Taymore et. al is an unfunny joke that aims to convince of her fabulous successes, particularly in Competency-based Education (of which Melrose Public Schools most certainly does not excel, despite the PR to the contrary). This is all a ruse so that Taymore can cast herself favorably to win high-dollar consultancy contracts after she leaves MPS in the state of disgrace which is the more accurate portrayal.

Melrose parents need to wake up and start putting decent School Committee candidates forward. This current (and chronically repeating) crop is a disgrace and reflects the culture of head-burying in sand and sycophance/social climbing that sums up the parent conduct for the last decade. How a convicted felon could be the chair of this bunch, and again, no less, is beyond comprehension. How MD could still be there after all the taxpayer dollars she is directly responsible for wasting (via her chronic violations of law, for starters), is also beyond comprehension. Melrose is getting what it deserves, though the children shouldn't have to bear the cost.

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The youth have changed in the last couple of years and its time people do too. Everyone needs to move on with the times or get out of the system. By 60 years old you should get out of the system. Let the youth take your positions and try to teach the students modern methods. More staff need to change with the time and get ready for 2020.

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Yes. PWL needs to go too! In addition to the statements you make, she is helping Eileen Karpenko, run Education Stations into the ground. Their decision making is taking what was a great program and ruining it. If you talk to her and ask questions about her decision making and policies, you realize her solution is always what is easiest for her and the administration, not what is best for the kids or families in this city. And don't get me started about Karen Gennari. Maybe she can be the new Superintendent.

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We'll always be mediocre. Sad but true. Just not deathly enough of a city. We'll always sort of wallow around in that middle class purgatory.

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New Superintendent will have to clean house.Remember the school committee members professional do their job.That job is the boss of the new superintendent.They stop looking the other way like everything is fine.If they do the job things will be fine for all of us.

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If they were TRULY interested in what is best for the students, Mr. Gerry Mrotz would be the School Superintendent! Obviously its all about the power, money, and greed.

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Provisions Techniques
New Superintendent will have to clean house.Remember the school committee members professional do their job.That job is the boss of the new superintendent.They stop looking the other way like everything is fine.If they do the job things will be fine for all of us.
Exactly what are you trying to say? The only parts that make sense are the first and last sentences.

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People are surprised by this why? People have been trying for years, in vain unfortunately, to make it known how things are done here.

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GERRY,GERRY,GERRY,GERRY,GERRY,GERRY!

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New Superintendent will have to clean house.Hoperfully is not an insider.Nothing will change.With an insider.

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Still can’t believe it’s February and our SC is just starting the process. Why did they wait so long. I feel this group cannot make any decisions. The good candidates have probably taken other openings. CT gave them plenty of notice.

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There's only ONE real good choice.....GERRY, GERRY, GERRY, GERRY, GERRY! Need I say more?

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But will the school committee make good decisions on a New Superintendent.

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Don't claim that you respect the tax paying citizens and then waste our hard earned dollars on a superintendent search. Don't claim that your primary concern is for the students while ignoring, time and time again, the best advice and solutions proffered by the true student advocate. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, HIRE MR. (SAINT) GERRY MROTZ NEXT SUPERINTENDENT! GERRY,GERRY,GERRY,GERRY,GERRY,GERRY,GERRY!

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This SC absolutely does NOT want public input or scrutiny of any kind. It's far too late in the year to expect a really good candidate will still be available, assuming you could even find a good candidate stupid enough to come here (our pitiful reputation preceeds us in that regard) and that was done by design. The bag job is already in place. Adams will be named "interim" super, and then when no one is paying attention she'll be given the job permanently.

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I agree. The school committee doesn't seem to be able to make decisions. Mr. Mayor is giving that impression too. Lets have a forum to discuss how every one in town feels so I can make a decision...or not.

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want to change my vote!
I agree. The school committee doesn\'t seem to be able to make decisions. Mr. Mayor is giving that impression too. Lets have a forum to discuss how every one in town feels so I can make a decision...or not.
People are surprised by this why? People have been trying for years, in vain unfortunately, to make it known how things are done here.

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Parent
Super and her \\\"assistants\\\" all need to go.

Taymore should not be allowed to retire in the blaze of glory and sickening praise that this School Committee is guaranteed to try and give her. She is the one who allowed a teacher to get a promotion instead of being fired in disgrace after telling a student to \\\"go back to the plantation,\\\" for starters (after which Taymore got a big raise, too).

White-Lambright is personally responsible (irresponsible) for the colossal failures of meeting the needs of those with special needs, for many years, and for many hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars. There are solid reasons she has failed to secure any of the many positions for which she has applied. Any responsible administration would have sent her packing many years ago (and never would have hired her in the first place, as is the case with the entire lot of them, from what can be observed even in a cursory manner).

Adams is personally responsible for the chronic failures in academic success across the district. She was and is an inarticulate (barely literate) babbler of ed nonsense, which she manages to execute as ineffectively as she communicates.

The recent WAPO article put out by Taymore et. al is an unfunny joke that aims to convince of her fabulous successes, particularly in Competency-based Education (of which Melrose Public Schools most certainly does not excel, despite the PR to the contrary). This is all a ruse so that Taymore can cast herself favorably to win high-dollar consultancy contracts after she leaves MPS in the state of disgrace which is the more accurate portrayal.

Melrose parents need to wake up and start putting decent School Committee candidates forward. This current (and chronically repeating) crop is a disgrace and reflects the culture of head-burying in sand and sycophance/social climbing that sums up the parent conduct for the last decade. How a convicted felon could be the chair of this bunch, and again, no less, is beyond comprehension. How MD could still be there after all the taxpayer dollars she is directly responsible for wasting (via her chronic violations of law, for starters), is also beyond comprehension. Melrose is getting what it deserves, though the children shouldn\\\'t have to bear the cost.
Yes, the WAPO article is more bull**** feeding. Competency-based Education works at best at the higher ed. level, not in a class of 30 students. Melrose's move to this has been nightmarish. Teachers can not manage it properly. Students "learn at their own pace" and at the middle school it has been a snail's pace with few expectations for those desiring challenge.Students within the same class should follow different pathways to learning which really has translated to teacher supporting those with needs while everyone else is bored. Student achievement for all doesn't matter.

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Yes, "THIS"!

And MHS/Merrill/Taymore's new edict about making all 9th grade classes "honors" is just Taymore and SC once again cutting resources from secondary education so that they can pander to the elementary uber mommies and daddies and try to fool them into thinking this is as good a school system as the private schools. Removing actual differentiated teaching from 9th grade is as heinous as when they made all 6th grade students stay at one level in math (still happening). The NoOneMelrose parents are so dumb and gullible and haven't yet accepted what many have tried to say for years, that once your "baby" (Cyndy's fake affectionate term for the youngest students) are beyond toddlerhood and early education, they will be thrown to the wolves in the Melrose Public Schools. Without fail, resources from secondary education will be stripped to pander to these gullible parents, and this is happening in real time at MHS right now with this latest BS.

When all 9th grade classes are deemed "honors" classes, it means that NONE are honors classes. It also means CT is free to strip more teachers and resources from MHS and divert them to the ECC or her own salary bonuses. The convicted Felon/SC Chair is only too happy to oblige, all with his laughable fake noble Dickensian pomp and verbiage.

This is as foolish and educationally irresponsible as when CT/SC and the incredibly ignorant assistant superintendents started force-feeding AP classes to more and more (incl 9th grade students) in order to boost the real estate profile in stupid things like "Niche," regardless of whether the students were in fact adequately prepared for such classes or the teachers competent to teach them. The resulting failures were fiercely concealed by the administration and its unethical collaborators on the school committee, all of whom continue to bury their/the public's collective heads in the sand (or in the case of Melrose, the ever-burgeoning and appropriately entitled Poop Volcano).

In the case of Melrose, the program initially referenced should be called the Incompetence-Based Education!

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The German-American philosopher and political theorist, Hannah Arendt was a student of the period that experienced the rise of totalitarianism during the 1930s and 1940s, and here’s what she said about it: “If, everybody lies to you, if everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer…And a people that can no longer believe anything, cannot make up its mind. It is deprived, not only of its capacity to act, but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people, you can then do what you please.”

Hence, 15 years of lies and obfuscation under RD and all the sycophant liars/incompetents now/still in charge have given rise to a resident population that literally will believe anything, even when it defies logic and worse, when it hurts their own families and pocket books.

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exactly, well said

My family still can't over the fact that this well-heeled and supposedly well-educated community has now twice elected a convicted felon to be the School Committee Chair. This convict gets to control the entire flow of information both to and from the school administration. What else is he controlling? His ignominius vice chair is certainly still pulling many of the strings, being a total control freak and in love with herself and power. There's no way that Mr. Ed is making the primary decisions, but rather "Mother" (both Margaret and Cyndy share that Pence-like role when it comes to the Con Man).

To see the rest of the SC kowtow to their disgraced chair and vice chair (with all the boatloads of taxpayer money she is personally responsible for wasting, via all her illegal actions) is beyond discouraging. Add to that another gibbering mayor who can't seem to phrase an articulate thought, let alone one that actually makes sense, makes for a perfect storm of incompetence and venality.

Now that the override has passed, they want us to forget that, because it's back to handwringing over money woes, as they ramp up to more crooked demands from the taxpayers, at least half of whom seem to be willfully ignorant rather than just ill-informed. These neighbors and fellow citizens just don't seem to want to know the actual truth but rather crave the alternate facts that get passed off here as normal and even worthy of glorification.

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Are you kidding me? How could you have expected anything else? I've lived here all my life, and Melrose has ALWAYS had more ignorant morons and nitwits per square foot than any place in the known universe. If it weren't for the fact that these nitwits all have their hands in my pockets, it would be funny.

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Melrose takes awhile to wake up and hopefully not to long this time.

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senior
exactly, well said

My family still can't over the fact that this well-heeled and supposedly well-educated community has now twice elected a convicted felon to be the School Committee Chair. This convict gets to control the entire flow of information both to and from the school administration. What else is he controlling? His ignominius vice chair is certainly still pulling many of the strings, being a total control freak and in love with herself and power. There's no way that Mr. Ed is making the primary decisions, but rather "Mother" (both Margaret and Cyndy share that Pence-like role when it comes to the Con Man).

To see the rest of the SC kowtow to their disgraced chair and vice chair (with all the boatloads of taxpayer money she is personally responsible for wasting, via all her illegal actions) is beyond discouraging. Add to that another gibbering mayor who can't seem to phrase an articulate thought, let alone one that actually makes sense, makes for a perfect storm of incompetence and venality.

Now that the override has passed, they want us to forget that, because it's back to handwringing over money woes, as they ramp up to more crooked demands from the taxpayers, at least half of whom seem to be willfully ignorant rather than just ill-informed. These neighbors and fellow citizens just don't seem to want to know the actual truth but rather crave the alternate facts that get passed off here as normal and even worthy of glorification.
What happens? What do we do?

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Where is the transparency? Minimal communication to few parents about the changes. Yes,the edict eliminating honors breeds incompetence and these kids are being set up for failure.

Elimination of Honors Classes at MHS?

Can someone please post whatever information is available about the plan to eliminate the honors level classes at MHS? or share a link to the information? I watch school committee meetings and follow along pretty closely and have not heard anything about these changes. There is nothing in the Melrose Weekly News or on Melrose Patch either.

So instead of there being three levels (AP, honors, and everyone else) the district plans to offer only two levels, AP and everyone else? If the district has to eliminate a level, rational thought would suggest it would be the AP level that goes.

But I thought the purpose of the override was to provide funding to offer more programs or expanded services to improve our schools. Feeling completely duped!



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Keep on electing these idiots on the school committee and this stuff will only get worse- wake up people.

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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?

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But I thought the purpose of the override was to provide funding to offer more programs or expanded services to improve our schools. Feeling completely duped!

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There were other Superintendents who gave their retirement notice the same time as CT and they already have replacement

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Good evening to you all, after reading this post I am not surprised that school administrative teachers are asking students, 'do the parents post on the message board?' The truth of the whole thing is, it is none of their business. Apparently the message board is doing the job it's supposed to be doing. That's the freedom of speech. Because when you get down to it, going to a melrose school committee meeting, participating, or speaking at the meeting, if they don't like what you're saying. or talking about you'll never get to talk for five minutes. A real concern here is, why are they asking the students, they play a lot of games here, getting back at students and parents. My message to the school administration and the school committee and our superintendent; if you folks aren't retaliating against other folks that file these complaints, people probably wouldn't go to the message board, but I guess we're at the point, that the message board is having an impact. Because the truth is being spoken, and maybe that is starting to bother the administration folks, our superintendent and probably making our mayor a lot more nervous now. There concern should be, what is the next scandal that is going to happen, if it isn't a scandal, or do we have more corruption coming our way? Maybe the one thing that you should keep in mind is, social media will sure as hell not shut it down. So you need to all grow up, and realize that a lot of the bull that has been going on for sometime now, needs to end. how many more teachers are going to leave? Because this isn't about teaching in Melrose, this has to do more with what our superintendent want and some folks on the school committee. Let's add one more thing to this; How many IEP's were on a compliance? Basically in simple language, how many children were missing the services that they deserve and that they should have with their IEP. You folks should be worried about all of us in the community because we're all talking. Not only the folks with children in the school system but also folks with children that are long gone out of the school system. My message to mayor and superintendent; start doing your jobs, teach our children and look forward to comments.

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That's the freedom of speech.