Board of Education tables reassignment of 38 percent of Lloyd Rd. School staff

Nicole Antonucci:

A standing-room-only crowd of teachers filled the Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District Board of Education meeting room Monday night to protest staffing reassignments throughout the district. Proposed staffing changes, which involve approximately 38 percent of the faculty, or 19 teachers, at Lloyd Road Elementary School in Aberdeen, were tabled after approximately 100 teachers raised concerns during the board's June 11 workshop meeting at Cambridge Park Elementary School.

An additional 12 teachers are being reassigned to other schools. "My transfer along with the other involuntary transfers are not only ethically egregious but, most importantly, detrimental to our students," Barbara Danback, a school counselor at the grades 4-5 school, said.

Teachers lined up to take turns at the podium to tell the board the transfers are involuntary and to ask the board to reconsider such a large move.

"My colleagues and I believe that the transfers being recommended are not educationally sound," Wendy Winchel, a fifthgrade teacher at Lloyd Road, said.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at June 16, 2012 2:40 AM
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