SINCE HE'S LEAVING THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE, RICK FOUND SOMETHING TO FILL HIS FREE TIME!

 

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LYNN'S LIMBO MUMBO JUMBO

Stanley Wotring <lynn.school.watch@gmail.com>	10:02 AM (0 minutes ago)
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Dear Sirs,

Good morning, my name is Stan Wotring and I have a locally popular blog, LYNN SCHOOL 

WATCH. I have been following the NET SCHOOL SPENDING problems in Lynn with a 

great deal of interest as you might imagine.

After writing all of the school committee members and various other officials I have been 

unable to get a response as to the status of the city's  repayment plan for the $15 million 

plus owed due to failing to meet its obligations. My understanding is that this plan was 

submitted just after the end of last fiscal year. It is also my understanding that there was 

no guarantee of acceptance of the plan without which subjecting the district to potential 

additional fines.

Now it is also my understanding that someone who did get a response from someone in 

the DESE that no decision has yet been made on the status of the plan. I fail to understand 

the delay in making a decision and feel that it is grossly unfair to hold Lynn in limbo. 

The longer you delay only subjects Lynn  to needless uncertainty about its educational 

direction. Of course, if the plan is to ignore the problem and not hold the city to its 

responsibility to the students then you are right on track by being off track. The political 

climate is not ripe for confrontation.

Either way I would appreciate a response I can share with my readers. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Stan

BREED IS BUILT FOR SOCCER

Lynn Youth Soccer

Winter & Spring Registration Open

Winter Indoor is played at Breed Middle School, Upper & Lower Gyms

U8 & U10 teams play Friday Nights, 6:00pm-9:00pm

U6 & U12 teams play Saturday Mornings, 9:00am-12:00pm

Players & Coaches Needed ! ! !

Register now @ www.lynnyouthsoccer.org

** Please note any SPECIAL REQUESTS when registering **

Spring Outdoor Registration is also open for Travel & Intramural

Hmmm, I wonder who's paying the janitots?

PIRATES TO TAKE CHANCE

Looks like all the LynnCAM lunacy may be coming to a head soon. Now I don't have an eyewitness account (well not my eye) but it sounds like they are going up for a. SHORT ORDER on DEC. 4.

The emergency hearing is at the city's request so LynnCAM better havei it's ducks in a row!

REMEMBER, KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY.

FORD FALLACY

READING READY

Lynn Public Schools with Jared Nicholson.

1 hr · 

Incoming and outgoing School Committee members, Jared Nicholson and Charlie Gallo, read to the children at the Lynn Public Schools Curwin Terrace Preschool Center.

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WHEN YOUR "NEW BED" IS NOW A BABY CRIB IN YOUR OLD PLACE

Lynn Public Schools added 9 new photos.

1 hr · 

At the Ford School, Mrs. Guarino’s 3rd grade classroom helps Food Corp representative, Jennifer Coverdale, to put the garden to bed for the winter.

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SAFE BET - FORGET THE NET

MONTHS IN THE MAKING TO MAKE NOTHING

Lori D'Amico Mr. Sullivan responded that a final determination has not been made as of yet and that they are continuing to work with the city and school department to resolve the issue.

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Stanley Wotring Nothing will happen!

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Lori D'Amico Agreed. I do not think the DESE will accept the proposal as written.

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Stanley Wotring How complicated can it be?

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Lori D'Amico The proposal asks for the department to allow Lynn to include retiree health insurance costs toward NSS in FY13, which they and many other districts were not and currently are not allowed to do. By allowing this, the figures for FY13 and beyond drastically change and in Lynn's favor so that it pretty much wipes away the millions in carryovers and will bring Lynn into compliance or very close to it. Mr. Carol included these new calculations in his email.

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Stanley Wotring Just like the backpay Clancy and the city councilmen owed.

MAYORAL MISSTEPS MAYBE?

Control the news
Shape the views

Treat accusations as fact
Relentless attack

No surprise of the sin
After all this is Lynn

The court will have the final word
The cost to taxpayers absurd.

PIRATES OF THE GOOD SHIP LYNN

I went to Governor Baker's press conference on the steps of city hall this morning where not much new was announced, This was purely a photo-op. The fact that MARKET BASKET is coming to LYNN is old news. Yeah some recent political news has got it moving a little faster now when it looks like it was just spinning its wheels was recently announced. Everybody knew. This was just cold outdoor theater.

One thing that was a little different though was the disruption in the scripted performance of the state, local, and federal politicians was the disruption occurring from the shouts of a few committed LynnCAM supporters. I have outlined their positions in previous posts. Along with their disputed points of contention was their cry for a call for some face to face meetings and their claim that the MAYOR has refused to meet with them. They assert that their calls and letters  have been unanswered. WELCOME TO MY WORLD!

Well this little stunt got the GOVERNOR'S people to PROMISE to call/e mail them and I was standing beside the MAYOR when her and her aides met with some of the protestors after the speeches were over. I really heard nothing that would lead me to believe there was any intention of any resolution of all this drama.

What I did hear was they will be in court in BOSTON tomorrow and talk of an injunction. I don't understand how the CITY could have unilaterally PIRATED LynnCAM's old signal to broadcast on the new LCTV who have their offices in city hall. So much for objectivity, but I'm getting used to it with a PR rag for a paper. This all stinks.

ALL WRAPPED UP

Thanks to the RACE TO THE TOP our payroll at LPS has been TOPPED OFF with another new $80,000 a year position that ended up being a mandate with disappearing funding. Now no sensiple person can argue with the good intentions of the position.

What I have hard time WRAPPING my head around is why another layer of administration is needed to further insulate LPS from the real problems families face out there. Granted this is not so much a local problem as a national one. We are so much in love with individual data points that we can't see the forest for the trees. We are so overwhelmed with busy work that no real work gets done.

WAS OUR DEBT FORGIVEN?

NET SCHOOL SPENDING repayment plan

Stanley Wotring <lynn.school.watch@gmail.com>	9:31 AM (0 minutes ago)
to jcerulli, john.e.ford, Charlie, donnacoppola, Maria, patti7761, Rick, lathamc, tom, Lynn

Dear Mayor Kennedy,

A few months have passed since the stated deadline for a plan to resolve the city's NET SCHOOL 

SPENDING debt. I understand that your office submitted a proposal to resolve this financial crisis. 

However I do not recall any announcement whether or not the proposal was accepted or denied.

If accepted has any back payments been made or do you know when you expect to make them? 

Or as may be the case, has the state chosen to ignore the debt de facto by not acting on the 

proposal? Since millions of dollars are at stake, the fiscal health of the entire city of LYNN, 

and the educational well-being and ability of LPS are at stake, I would hope for a prompt 

answer I can share with my readers.

Sincerely,

Stan

TIGERS GET RAMMED

The CLASSICÅL RÅMS JV football team tripped up the LTVI TIGERS 22-14. Next up the TECH VARSITY will take on AUSTIN PREP. on Thanksgiving Eve.

CREEPING CRUD

In one of the subcommittee meetings last week passionate arguments were given to add both a PROGRAM SPECIALIST to the FINE ARTS DEPARTMENT and a new ASST. DIRECTOR OF CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION POSITION for the HUMANITIES.

While I have a great deal of empathy for both of these areas (not only as a POET but the Chairman of the CHEMISTRY department at WV WESLEYAN{who was from MIT} taught HUMANITIES), I am concerned about the creeping expansion of the administration and the direction away from the students. I am well aware that we are getting overwhelmed with all of the accountability requirements and we are being held hostage by the numbers. That doesn't mean I have to like it or agree with it and are prevented from pointing out the educational injustice of actuaries actually hijacking purpose.

SANTA GOES STEM

It's kind of funny that STEM seems all the rage on winning some LPS students some acclaim but yet LPS has went in the opposite direction in the lower grades district wide by taking away a proven STEM booster in KNOW-ATOM.

The students may be being shortchanged but this new program they have adopted may have cost more. Who knows because they really haven't  released all the figures to compare. On top of that they haven't mentioned the gains we had last year.

Oh well, I'm glad for FACTEAU-LEARY anyway. I wish them luck.

Lynn school advances nationally

WAITING FOR OTHER SHOES

Wasn't about this time last year when the NET SCHOOL SPENDING problem hit the spotlight? I thought it was around this time when the numbers came in detailing the deficit. Bet we are NO better off but you won't hear much about it! I love to be WRONG.

CHIP IN TO CASH OUT

02

DEC

Interested

Ward 7 Councilor Elect John " Jay " Walsh Retire The Debt Party!

Wed 5:30 PM · Old Tyme Italian Cuisine · Lynn, MA

GROWING SPED

The SPECIAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT has added a new PROGRAM SPECIALIST. Her name is LEANNE PALMER. Congrats!

FREEDOM OF THE (RE)PRESSION?

This PUBLIC ACCESS MESS just starts to stink a little more each day. First I open up my FACEBOOK to find this:

KRITIKOS FAMILY STATEMENT
PEDRO DIAZ JR
DAVID REILLY JR

SEAN DONAHUE
LYNN COMMUNITY TELEVISION IS HERE TO STAY. THOSE THREE GUYS WILL INSTITUTE CHANGE.
THE LCTV BOARD OF DIRECTORS WILL OVERSEE ALL OF THE WORK THAT THESE GUYS WILL PROVIDE FOR THE COMMUNITY. BUT I NOW OWN THE ASSETS AND THE BUILDING LYNNCAMTV ACCESS AND MEDIA INCORPORATED WHICH IS THE PARENT COMPANY OF LCTV AND YOU WILL ABIDE BY THE BY LAWS INSTITUED BY LYNNCAMTV
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE GO TO MY WEBSITE AT http://demetrioskritikos.com/lctv/ FOR MORE INFORMATION AND MORE CHANGE IS COMING SO STAY TUNED

What the heck is that all about? Looks like LPS has landed smack dab in the middle of an unfriendly fight between BIG personalities and there is only one reality.

It's a good thing I actually watched the last LSC meeting live because it wasn't posted as a recording on the WEB page. In fact, the last meeting recording was SEPTEMBER 23 so and I wrongly assumed that once the LSC meetings were broadcast again they would be back up on the WEB page but NO...... What's up with this? Is it more political mind/media control?

NEW NURSE

A new nurse was added to LPS officially last THURSDAY. School nurses are one of the few positions that the LSC are actually responsible for hiring. The newest LPS employee is SARAH MERENDA, RN, BSN.

YOUR BREAD IS BUTTERED ON WHAT SIDE?

I don't know if DR. LATHAM is playing stupid or actually is. This question came to mind after she expressed surprise at DESE's decision to support MCAS 2.whatever and passing on PARCC.

We have a new governor who has a different agenda and not one that looks to pad the pockets of certain people who may have a conflict of interest. While Superintendent Chester is not directly appointed by Gov. BAKER, the people who oversee him are.

TIGER TAKEDOWN 31-14

TIGER TAKEDOWN 31-14

TIGERS COMPLETE MISSION

In a game domiinated by our TIGERS, the score of 31-14 made it sound closer than it was. The MISSION TITANS gave LVTI thier sixth win of the season.

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PUBLIC ACCESS ABSCESS

You may have silenced the VOICE
But you can't silence me.

I have only one CHOICE

And my message is FREE!

Over me you have no POWER 

So everyone will SEE

The banner of truth I will hoist

But things are so dirty, I'll need a shower!

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DRIVE FOR DRIVE

DEC

05

Driven To Succeed Fundraiser

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Public · Fundraiser · Hosted by Centerboard

• Saturday, December 5 at 6:00pm

• Show Map 16 City Hall Square, Lynn MA 01901

• Find Tickets Tickets Available www.eventbrite.com

Join us on Saturday, December 5 from 6-10pm as we raise money to buy a new van for our Teen Living Program! There will be great food, a cash bar, raffles, an art opening, DJ and live R&B!! Tickets are only $25. Buy your tickets today for a good cause, transporting the young mothers and their children to appointments, classes and activities!!