Owen J. Roberts Media Circus Back In Town Looks the rumor mill is running full-tilt at the Fishwrap online over the new OJR Superintendent of Schools leaving. The OJR School Board rushed to hire a replacement for wrongfully terminated Myra Forrest and less than two years later the new guy resigns. All the details are “confidential”?? Smells like day-old fish guts to me. Despite all the “drama” this has caused and the pall it has cast over the Owen J. Roberts School District, the students suffer when there are too many turnovers. It seems more than coincidental that this guy is “outta here” already. If it is just “bad timing” then more of an explanation is due OJR taxpayers without violating anyone’s “confidentiality”. The board owes it to OJR taxpayers and students to do a better job of selecting a candidate who is “in it for the long haul”. Continuity is important and we are talking about educating our children – not hiring someone to run the fryer at Mickey D’s. You had a perfectly good superintendent, who was totally committed to the district, and you fired her for no good reason! Two thumbs down for more drama! (This entry is cross-posted from my blog.)
Interesting that his resignation is actually in October but he is being allowed to burn off his vacation & sick days until then to stay on the payroll. Hearing some rumblings also that DiBartolomeo was only renting a house in the region for the past two years without his family joining him.
