“Is the EBR School Board single handedly trying to destroy the EBR Public Schools?” asked an indignant Annalee Campbell, an outspoken parent, in an email Thursday morning to School Board members. “Honestly, I can’t even get my head around some of the cuts to school programs that are occurring.”
Thirty minutes later, board member Connie Bernard responded, to say the decision to reassign these 230-plus school employees was the decision of Supt. Sito Narcisse.
“These decisions were not made with my input, nor with the input of any board member I spoke with in the last 72 hours,” Bernard wrote.
In addition to Thursday’s protest, a group called Friends of Public Ed, which was founded by active parent Mary Juneau and claims to have about 200 members, is asking the School Board to review Narcisse’s performance so far and make a vote of no confidence. An online petition to that effect posted by Juneau had garnered more than 800 signatures by early Thursday night.