THE EVERETT ADVOCATE – FRiDAy, JAnuARy 26, 2024 Page 9 ~ School Daze ~ 425r Broadway, Saugus Located adjacent to Kohls Plaza Route 1 South in Saugus at the intersection of Walnut Street We are on MBTA Bus Route 429 781-231-1111 We are a Skating Rink with Bowling Alleys, Arcade and two TV’s where the ball games are always on! PUBLIC SKATING SCHEDULE 12-7 p.m. Sunday Shown from left, School Committee members Robin Babcock, Samantha Lambert, and Joanna Garren proved that they’re “three of a kind” following their attempt to bring back former schools supt. Priya Tahiliani during last Thursday evening’s school committee meeting. Luckily for the students and teachers, calmer heads prevailed and the committee shot down their motion. Misfits Disrupt With high hopes for better, more composed School Committee meetings since the inauguration of our new School Committee three weeks ago, some members still want to rehash the turmoil of the last two years. Thursday night’s meeting of the Everett School Committee proved exactly that. The original agenda published on Friday, January 12, for the Tuesday, January 16 meeting, looked straightforward, and it would have been a simple meeting. The meeting originally scheduled for Tuesday night was postponed until Thursday, January 18, due to severe weather. Tuesday a revised agenda was published adding a line item by two new members, Robin Babcock and Joanna Garren, to discuss and vote on the status of the paid administrative leave for former Superintendent Priya Tahiliani. This line item sparked an immediate phone call to Ringling Brothers to get the circus to return to Everett – their exact wish. Public comment brought a return to the usual circus act of clowns demanding that Tahiliani be reinstated while teachers all insisted on leaving the past in the past and moving forward. Teachers made it clear that more has happened positively for them and the students in the two months since Bill Hart’s installation as superintendent than during the almost four years of Tahiliani’s tenure. The clowns completely disregarded the cost factor to taxpayers and the morale factor for both students and faculty of reinstating the former, controversial Superintendent Tahiliani. School Committee Attorney Robert Galvin stated that reinstating Priya Tahiliani could impede the investigation of the 10 complaints fi led against Tahiliani. What does reinstating Tahiliani say to those 10 faculty members and the rest of the staff ? As Robin Babcock stated, “I fi rmly believe any and all complaints must be appropriately investigated and the investigation of these complaints should continue, however, that does not mean that Superintendent Tahiliani needs to remain on leave as the investigation continues.” What would that mean for the faculty? Were she and Garren planning to extend Tahiliani’s contract beyond February 29? School Committee Vice Chairperson and self-proclaimed “professor” Samantha Lambert hypocritically stated, “I think we all agree that every complaint should be investigated whether internally or through an outside investigator if appropriate.” Even though no action or stance has been taken yet on the complaints fi led against committee member Lambert’s landlord’s [former School Committee member Tom Abruzzese’s] son. What does that statement say to the parents that made the complaint against Mr. Abruzzese? Is the protection of minors not as important as reinstating a former superintendent who has a salary greater than $200,000 in a city where the median income is $45,000? What are those parents feeling, Mrs. Lambert? Why did committee members Babcock and Garren amend the agenda with this line item? 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