Public Can Question Superintendent Finalists
The candidates will be at Attleboro High School next week on Monday and Tuesday.
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Attleboro School Committee interviews of the two finalists for the superintendent post will take place this week, and next week the public will get its opportunity to ask some questions. Committee Chair Mike Tyler announced Monday the candidates will introduce themselves and take questions at Attleboro High School's mini-auditorium next Monday (Kenneth Sheehan of West Warwick) and Tuesday (Anthony Azar of New Bedford) from 4:15 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Residents will be asked to write their questions on index cards and school committee members will select a few to be asked to the finalists.
Sheehan and Azar will spend the day in Attleboro prior to the public forums, meeting with school, city and student leaders as well as touring campuses. Their schedules are attached to this article.
School committee interviews of the candidates will take place in public this week Wednesday (Azar) and Thursday (Sheehan) at 7 p.m. The committee is expected to make its selection the week of March 18.
Kendelle Aronson
11:14 am on Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Many parents in the community are working during these times. I was really hoping the school committee could work something out that would be as inclusive as possible. I voiced my concern to a member of the committee last night who brought it up to Mr. Tyler. The response he got back was something like this - if it's important enough to the parents they will make the time to get there. The candidates can't be expected to be here for 18 hours..... That's a disappointing answer.
Jim Stors
2:29 pm on Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Hey Kendelle,
Although it wouldn't be as good being able to ask the question yourself face-to-face, what you might be able to do is provide the main question(s) that you have to Chairman Tyler, or other members of the Committee, and possibly these will either be similar to the questions that they already have, or could be added to the list of questions that will be asked during the televised interviews. Worst case, possibly they could be asked by one of these Committee members during the day that the finalists are here and the response could be emailed to you.
Bill K.
4:04 pm on Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Or Jim, schedule an extremely important meeting / question-answer session during a time period where the working parents of Attleboro school aged children can attend.
There is only one way to guarantee that a question will be asked and that is not to rely on someone else to ask it, but ask it yourself. The majority of the working parents are being denied this opportunity due to a poorly made scheduling decision.
Laura Dolan
4:26 pm on Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Parents were invited to be part of the focus groups, which is what we used to generate the questions we asked in the Superintendent interviews. I do understand it is at an inconvenient time as I could not make either due to work obligations.
Jim Stors
4:33 pm on Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Bill, no argument that it would, of course, be better to have the opportunity to ask the question yourself, as I stated in my response to Kendelle. I also agree with both of you that this scheduled time is a bit early for most working parents. My suggestion to Kendelle was just an option so she could, at the least, get a response to the questions she has. I am of the opinion that the elected officials work for the citizens of our city, which means that if I had this conflict and requested that my representative(s) ask these questions for me, I would expect that it would happen. If it did not then I would have concerns.