When is the Greenwich Board of Education going admit they made a horrific mistake in hiring Superintendent Betty Sternberg.
Could someone please go and check and see if Greenwich School Board members have a pulse. When is the the school board going to put an end to spiralling costs and mismanaged building projects.
When the Board Of Education finally comes out of its coma and gives Strenberg and her walking papers, then the single family home owners can start paying her enormous unpaid bills.
With in the last week Sternberg has made national headlines by picking a fight with the Greenwich Boy Scouts, then she forces Hamilton Avenue School parents to hire a lawyer, now protesters have returned to the front of the Board Of Education Building on Greenwich Avenue.
I wonder what Betty is planning for next week?
Please see:
Watch The News 12 Video - Greenwich parents protest school contract negotiation
Quote:
“Greenwich likes to pat itself on the back and say when it comes to special-needs children they're the best. They need to take another look at themselves and see what they're doing to the people that are actually taking care of these kids,” says John Cain, the husband of a para-professional at Old Greenwich School."
Story:
The parents say they're upset because school administrators are trying to renegotiate a contract that includes cuts for the school aids who deal with special-needs children.
According to the protestors, the board of education is offering school aids, known as para-professionals, a 50 cent per hour raise. They also say the district wants to double their insurance premiums, as well as cut back their sick days from 15 to five.
ALSO:
Because of his frequent seizures, Kate Picco's 6-year-old son requires constant monitoring. So when he and four other special needs children were placed in preschool class with 10 other students at Old Greenwich School, Picco was concerned about having only one special education teacher assigned to the class.
Greenwich Post - Parents turn out in force to support instructional assistants
...Michelle Baske showed support both as a parent and a former Greenwich High School teacher. She praised the assistants as “highly qualified and underpaid.” She said if members of the board observed the classroom on a daily basis she would see how important the assistants are.
“They make the classroom run,” Ms. Baske said. “We need them to make the school day flow smoothly so the teachers can actually do what their job is.”
Marcia Noble, the parent of a child with special needs, accused the town of being “penny wise and pound foolish” in its approach to the negotiations, saying the low salaries are keeping qualified and trained aides from working in Greenwich, which will lead to the potential for more parents of special education students to either put their kids in private school or file suit against the district. She said qualified professionals not only help special education students during the school day, but also parents after hours, by giving them the tools they need to interact with their children.
“It’s almost pathetic that in a town many outsiders consider the utopia of suburbia, we’re paying people we so badly need in the classroom less than our neighboring communities,” Ms. Noble said....
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