Watch as opponents of a plan to transfer Gloucester Twp. administrators to different schools find out the school board agreed with concerns.
Read about the emotional and heated Jan. 28 Gloucester Township school board meeting at Opponents of School Principal Shakeup Plan Victorious—for Now. Do you have something to say on this issue, or another school issue? Write a letter to the editor—send it to gloucestertownship@patch.com with "Letter to the editor" in the subject line. Stay with Gloucester Township Patch this week as we bring you more from the board meeting, including an update on contract negotiations. Sign up to receive our daily news digest so you don’t miss anything.
Faced with hundreds of incensed parents and teachers, the Gloucester Twp. school board changes course on a plan to transfer principals and vice principals.
An outpouring of fury from parents and educators livid at a planned wide-ranging shuffle of principals and vice principals in Gloucester Township schools prevailed Monday. After hearing two hours of angry comments from teachers and parents about the proposed rearrangement of school administrators midyear and with short notice, the school board of the K-8 district curtailed most of the changes. Instead, the board approved: Emotions—from piercing sobs to angry yelling to rousing words of support and, finally, yells of “thank you!”—punctuated the standing-room-only Gloucester Township school board meeting. One by one, parents and teachers stood to protest a domino situation that would have seen several principals and vice principals …
Didjaknow
3:14 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
Let's review...Edwards, Davis, Moran, Wrigley, Lamb, Petruzelli, Csolak - all administrators who left for leadership positions in other districts in the last 18 MONTHS. These people gave up that precious tenure as well as sick days and such to GET OUT of Gloucester Township. Now we have secretaries that are leaving for other districts! There must be a dead skunk lying around for so many people to… more ›