Board Notes provide an informal summary of business conducted at recent meetings of the Wicomico County Board of Education. The Board of Education at its May 8, 2012 monthly meeting:
Appointments
Approved two administrative appointments for the 2012-13 school year, effective July 1.
Patricia Blevins, who has served Wicomico County Public Schools as Coordinator of Reading since 2003, was appointed Supervisor of Reading. She has been involved in public education for 37 years, and has extensive experience in a variety of settings in effectively teaching reading.
Shelly Hall, currently a grade 3 classroom teacher at Delmar Elementary School, was appointed an Elementary Assistant Principal. In 1997, she was hired as a middle school teacher in Wicomico County Public Schools, starting at Salisbury Middle School. She later moved to Delmar Elementary School. In 2001, she became a Reading Support Teacher for Salisbury Middle and later Reading Intervention Specialist at Wicomico Middle.
NAACP Presentations
Welcomed the Wicomico County Chapter of the NAACP, which presented an Academic Achievement Award to the Wicomico Mentoring Project during the NAACP’s May observance of Education Achievement Month. Wicomico NAACP President Mary Ashanti presented a check for $150 and a certificate of recognition to Henri Parker, Coordinator of the Wicomico Mentoring Project, to recognize and support the Mentoring Project for mentoring students, providing positive role models, and supporting and motivating students to excel. The NAACP also presented certificates of recognition to the nine schools honored by the Maryland State Department of Education for their outstanding performance on the 2011 Maryland School Assessment: Beaver Run Elementary, Fruitland Primary, Glen Avenue Elementary, West Salisbury Elementary, Westside Intermediate, Willards Elementary, Delmar Elementary, North Salisbury Elementary and Northwestern Elementary.
Resignation
Learned from Board of Education member L. Michelle Wright, a member of the Board since 2006, that she is resigning from the Board effective June 30. In a letter of resignation sent to Gov. Martin O’Malley on May 8, Mrs. Wright thanked O’Malley for re-appointing her last year. She said that while she intended to serve her full five-year term through 2016, new financial disclosure requirements in the state’s ethics law forced her to make a choice between her desire for public service and her family’s right to privacy.
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6 comments:
I'd like to see that acronym changed to the NAAAP,or the National Association For The Advancement Of All People.Whenever an injustice was done that entity would represent anyone of any color.That change of one letter would strenghten that organization many times over almost immediately.We have moved into a new era,where injustices of all kinds and against all people need to be addressed.The days of singling out specific groups of people whose rights are the most likely to be violated are over.Anyone can be discriminated against at any time.The faster we become a color blind society the better.
I hear 2 more BOE members are stepping down at the same time.
I believe M. Wright is resigning for reasons other than financial disclosure.It was made known that she was having an innapropriate relationship with the superintendent and of course, no one at the board ever addressed those "rumors". As far as the other two, I would not be surprised if the entire board resigned. Who wants to be responsible for a superintendent that we currently have serving? Not me! With the pending lawsuits and the many wronged former employees, I wouldnt want to be in the position of serving on the BOE baord. Once the governor begins to get resignations, he will realize the complaints that have been sent, to his office, regarding our county are legitimate. I feel sorry for the staff that currently work directly under Freddy and for those who have lost their jobs, unfairly, under his leadership. It will all be brought to light in due time.
Heard from Board President Ron Willey that he enjoyed seeing families walking together at the first WCBOE 5K and Family Fun Walk. That's a Joke and so is he, He needs to STEP DOWN!!!
He needs to start doing what he knows is right. And he calls himself a Christian? Sad example to our community of real Christianity.
Let Elmore and Fitzgerald chair and co chair.
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