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School superintendent on wife-beating headmaster: I knew nothing, I saw nothing
By adamg on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 6:39am
The Globe reports School Superintendent Carol Johnson is now investigating whether Rodney Peterson, late of the O'Bryant School, abused his sick time - he may have even been marked as present even on the day he was being arraigned for choking and punching his wife.
Johnson, who wrote a glowing recommendation for Peterson even after learning of his guilty plea, says she was shocked as anyone to learn of the possible sick time issues, which the Globe reports were widely known among staff at the school. But while she knew nothing, Johnson denied hiring Peterson initially as a favor to Peterson's then girlfriend - not the woman he married and beat - who, like Johnson and Peterson, came from the Memphis school system.
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School Attendance
As a former substitute teacher I can attest that attendance and tardiness in the Boston Schools is a joke. The kids and the teachers check in and check out whenever they want to.
Wait till COURT STREET moves to Dudley and no one shows up.
It was the strudel
Someone lured her away with fresh,hot strudel while all this was going on. Happens all the time.
The fish is rotten from the head down
Please join 200+ families and community members demanding an immediate change in Boston
Schools https://www.change.org/petitions/superintendent-jo...
So no one picked up the phone
So no one picked up the phone and called Court st? Word was probably out about how he got the job in the first place, so they were all afraid of getting the chop if they made waves. Still, an anonymous call to the newspaper would have done the job.
The protective cocoon is already forming around her. Mumbles needs to promise another black woman will get the job in order to get rid of this hack and move on.
Community outrage
--seems high in Globe reader comments, but where is the civic response locally? Does the Boston community simply accept this as the normal state of affairs? Something must be very wrong then, something very bad, maybe, that has been going on for a very long time--as long as nearly 20 years, say--a status quo of such unabated cronyism and corruption and civic disempowerment, that our normal responses to abuse have become dangerously dulled. Are we all okay with that? Maybe not:
https://www.change.org/petitions/superintendent-jo...
No Show - Business as Usual
In many cities and towns top administrators are paid and supposedly working a full calendar year. Just try and find them at their desk during the summer.