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Public comments at Sharon meeting cover FLES, kindergarten fees, special-education complaint and staff negotiation concerns
Summary
Dozens of residents, teachers and staff spoke during public comment at the March 5 Sharon School Committee meeting, urging preservation of elementary Spanish instruction, reduced kindergarten fees and follow-up on alleged special-education failures.
A wide range of residents, staff and students addressed the Sharon School Committee during the meeting’s public-comment period on March 5, raising concerns about potential program cuts, special-education services, labor negotiations and district communications.
Several parents and teachers urged the committee to preserve the elementary FLES (elementary world-language) program. Pam Ritecki, speaking for the elementary Spanish team, said the program supports literacy and sentence structure skills: "The elementary Spanish program addresses skills such as sentence structure, identification of story components, use of transition words, comprehension of words, and context," she said. Multiple parents said they had visited FLES classrooms and described enthusiastic student engagement.
Other speakers pressed the committee to…
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