VIDEO: SEPAC Protests Esposito Contract Termination at BOE Meeting
Video of the May 9, 2012 Board of Education meeting provided courtesy of WBMA TV
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Friday, May 11, 2012
SEPAC Parents Protest Esposito's Termination
“It’s a disaster, what you’ve done today.” -- Special Education Parent Advisory Council member Hedi Kovacs, to the BOE
When the school board declined on Wednesday night to renew the contract of Frank Esposito, one question hung in the air: Why? Esposito, the Director of Special Services for the school district, had done an excellent job during his year in his position, according to several parents in the audience at the May 9 BOE meeting. “Our superintendent, who is in the trenches with Mr. Esposito, and we parents, who are in the trenches with Mr. Esposito, feel he did a good job, yet the board members – including new board members – who have no inkling what he does, voted against him,” stated one clearly frustrated parent, Hedi Kovacs, facing the board. “It’s a disaster, what you’ve done today.” Kovacs, a member of the Special Education Parent …
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Autism and the Ethics of Inclusion: A Matter of Civil Rights
Obama's appointee to the National Council on DisAbility, Ari Ne'eman spoke to the Bloomfield community about what it means to be “different” in an America built on equality and "justice for all.”
When autism advocate Ari Ne'eman, Barack Obama's appointee to the National Council on DisAbility, recently spoke to the Bloomfield community, the discussion was not about autism, per se, but about civil rights. Specifically, Ne'eman discussed how the role of the disabled person relates to history and human rights, and what it means to be “different” in an America built on the tenents of equality and "justice for all.” “Nobody should have to pretend to be something that they’re not, as a means of being included in their own society,” he said in an one-hour speech at Bloomfield High School on April 26. “We are taught at a very young age that to be ‘different’ is to be ‘wrong.’ [For those who are different] that’s a horrendous way of …
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I'm not a fan of how the Bloomfield's Special Services Department was run and a change of leadership is welcome. They need to stop playing games and provide the services needed for our children. more ›