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Public commenter urges board to explain former principal John Guidry’s departure
Summary
At the Oct. 22 Ellington School District Board of Education meeting, a resident running for the board said the district did not publicly explain why longtime high school principal John Guidry left and asked the board to reflect on its role in the personnel change.
Carl Stocker, a resident who said he is running for the Board of Education, used the public comment period at the Oct. 22 meeting to press the board for more transparency about the recent departure of Ellington High School principal John Guidry.
"I am running for the board of education. But I'm here to speak about something that's important to me personally ... I was a little bit surprised over the summer when I saw he was stepping away from the high school principal position," Stocker said. He said he later learned Guidry resigned from a newly assigned position just weeks after being appointed and that the circumstances were not publicly explained.
Stocker said he concluded — based…
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