1. | Jun 18, 2014

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2. | Aug 12, 2013

I'll be devil's advocate. The Board was right, and I read Ms. Castriotta's steanmett. By her own admission she was distracting the Principal and Suiperintendent from doing their job with questions that could have been asked at the appropriate time and place.As to the student safety issue, we had similar walkouts at the school my son goes to. The Principal and Vice-Principal had their hands full trying to prevent kids from leaving school property. In a few instances they had to chase and physically restrain some kids. Fortunately, I live in a school district where the board members do not show up to these events distracting the officials involved from doing their job. And yes, asking questions can be a distraction if it means the officials have to spend time answering questions from a school board member instead of keeping a constant watchful eye on the students.Finally, I commend the students for their political awareness, and I commend the Principal and Superintendent for exhibiting restraint and discretion, and the rest of the Roxbury School Board for letting the professionals do their job without literally looking over their shoulder and being a hindrance. I say this both as a parent and as an anti-Vietnam War, political radical who participated in many protests when I was in high school. Fortunately, as in Roxbury, the school officials and school board members in the school district I attended respected us as young adults, and we didn't have political reporters around questioning the motives of our teachers and administrators in tolerating our actions.One other interesting item. In her steanmett Ms.Castriotta mentions emails she got from Governor Christie and Bret Schundler telling school districts how to handle the protests. This from the same Governor who claims he wants to give local officials more discretion and flexibility in handling their affairs. Of course, that doesn't apply to issues that prove politically embarrassing to the Governor.

3. | Apr 16, 2013

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