Angry school parents will conduct a press conference prior to tonight’s Board of Education meeting to demand an apology from four school board members who walked out of a meeting a week ago to address the legal standing of the district’s parent advisory council. The school board meeting is scheduled for 6:30 at Geraldine Johnson School, 275 Lexington Avenue.
“We will be demanding an apology and the respect every single parent deserves,” says parent Cynthia Infante.
Board members Dennis Bradley, Joe Larcheveque, Andre Baker and Kevin McSpirit walked out of the meeting. Superintendent of Schools Fran Rabinowitz also left the meeting.
For background on the issue see here.
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*** Don’t know all the facts, however some of these parents at times want to take over the BOE meetings, they’re loud and disrespectful. The BOE also at times seems to waste a lot of time arguing about politics or old news instead of moving on to the items on the agenda for the meeting! It’s a board that gets very little done and where you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t! ***
That’s the Donald Trump school of logic Mojo, if one Muslim does something then they all have to be bad. You have no idea if these parents are those you alluded to in your post and to paint these parents with that disrespectful paintbrush is wrong.
I find it more disrespectful for individuals who took an oath of office just to get up and leave because they don’t want to discuss the subject matter. Those actions are a slap in the face to Bridgeport residents and the students they promised to help achieve a better education. Everyone who left this meeting owes the parents of these children, the residents of Bridgeport and the school children an apology for their reprehensible behavior.
*** “Don’t know all the facts/some of these parents at times BOE also at times seems to waste a lot of time,” etc. Time to slow down when you read blogs on OIB so you can post on the actual responses from bloggers in general, no? ***
No excuse for those who walked out. But there is a lot more to this issue going back to last year in regards to the parents’ council. Funny thing is last year some of these board members like Sauda did not want to even hear the parents’ complaints and Maria was one of the people they were complaining about. This year parents aligned with Maria and Sauda are complaining so now the opponents of those two do not want discuss it either. More tit for tat crap that does nothing to help the students and further divides the one group that should be united. The parents.
Also, Maria walked out of the first meeting this year before it was over in order to go to a city council meeting. Did she apologize for leaving?
*** Great assumption with the “tit-for-tat” concept. It’s nothing new to those who have watched, listened, and followed the political stepping stone/educational part-time interest sideshow on the Bpt BOE through the years. Those who go in looking to really make a positive change in the city’s public schools “at times” get a bit discouraged, frustrated and eventually tend to give up! I would love to see all the positive things accomplished by the Bpt BOE in the last 35 years compared to all the negative things that have happened from their votes for or against an item on the BOE agenda, or lack of doing anything at all. A seat on the Bpt BOE has become a stressful, thankless, heartbreaking at times, political citizen’s hope to make things better; eye-opening reality show for the ages, no? *** WHOOP ***