Page 2 THE EVERETT ADVOCATE – FRiDAy, FEbRuARy 17, 2023 ANGELO’S A FULL SERVICE 1978-2023 Celebrating 45 Years in Business! 197 Regular Unleaded $3.059 Mid Unleaded $3.979 Super $4.099 Diesel Fuel $4.249 KERO By Container Only Heating Oil at the Pump DEF $4.759 HEATING OI 24-Hour Burner Service Call for Current Price! (125—gallon minimum) DEF Available by Pump! Open an account and order online at: www.angelosoil.com (781) 231-3500 (781) 231-3003 367 LINCOLN AVE • SAUGUS Sun. 9AM-5PM Wayland Superintendent of Schools Omar Easy Files Racial Discrimination Complaint with State Agency Former 8-year Everett Public Schools administrator fi les with MCAD two days after being placed on leave by school board vote Advocate Staff Report W ayland Superintendent of Schools Omar Easy, a former Everett Public Schools administrator, has fi led a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD), stating he has been the victim of racism and prejudice by members of the Wayland School Committee and Wayland Public Schools staff members. The complaint was fi led Feb. 10 against the Wayland School Committee, the Select Board, Wayland Public Schools and individually against School Committee members Chris Ryan and Ellen Grieco, two days after the School Committee voted to place Easy on administrative leave. Omar Easy Wayland Supt. of Schools According to the complaint, Easy, in his second year as Wayland Superintendent, stated he was never given an explanation as to why he was placed on leave by the School Committee. Easy is a former 8-year Everwww.eight10barandgrille.com OPEN DAILY FOR DINNER AT 4 PM. CATCH THE CELTICS, BRUINS & NCAA SPORTS ON OUR 6 LARGE SCREEN TV'S! om Advocate Online: www.advocatenews.net WE'RE OPEN! 8 Norwood Street, Everett (617) 387-9810 ett Public Schools administrator who also formerly served as liaison between the city of Everett and the Everett Public Schools. Prior to working in the city of Everett, Easy was a former star football player at Everett High School and Penn State University before playing professionally for the Kansas City Chiefs in the National Football League (NFL), Everett’s only NFLer in the past 60-plus years. Easy was hired in February 2021 and began serving on July 1, 2022. He was in his second year in that position when he was placed on administrative leave last week, on Feb. 8. According to the complaint, Easy stated, “As of the time I am fi ling this Charge of Discrimination, the School Committee has still failed to provide me any basis for its actions. “As a result of Respondents’ discriminatory, retaliatory and other unlawful actions, I have suff ered, and continue to suff er, signifi - cant harm, including emotional distress.” Further, as stated in the complaint, Easy stated Grieco and Ryan helped create “an unlawfully hostile work environment,” by undermining his authority and following a “racist trope that Black males are somehow suspicious and/or aggressive.” Easy also stated in the complaint, after suggesting that cameras be placed in the middle school’s halls for security purposes after alleged racist graffi ti was discovered there, “I was accused of ‘destroying Wayland’s culture’ and ‘bringing Everett culture to Wayland’ — a thinly veiled racist reference to my majority-minority hometown and prior employer.” Prices subject to change Ask about our Heating Oil Conditioner! FLEET
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