More than 1,100 Marblehead residents have signed a petition expressing a “vote of no confidence” in the School Committee amid a teachers strike that left approximately 2,600 students out of classrooms all last week.
“As Marblehead community members, educators, students, parents, alumni, and local business and property owners, we have lost faith in this committee’s ability to govern the district responsibly and with integrity,” the online petition reads.
“We have seen grandstanding and more willingness to pay legal fees than to pay the salaries of our teachers,” parent Lainey Titus Smant, who has a first grader at Glover School and a fourth grader at Village, told the Current. “They seem to only want to create drama and not actually sit face to face with our teachers to find a solution that works for everyone and provides our kids with safe, high-quality schools.”
The Current reached out to all members of the School Committee about the petition and did not receive a reply…