A grievance subcommittee meeting on Dec. 22 took public comment in which multiple community members and teachers read letters in support of Amanda Santos (also transcribed in the record as Amanda Sanchez), a school adjustment counselor, and raised broader concerns about bullying and administrative responses at Sylvia’s school in the Fall River Public Schools.

The session opened with the committee taking roll call and reading the open meeting law notice. During citizen input time, the secretary read letters submitted by residents and staff. One letter described Santos as "compassionate, professional, and unwavering in dedication to students, families, and colleagues." Several teachers and colleagues who identified themselves in the letters said they had worked with Santos in the Fall River School District and urged the committee to recognize her work.

Other letters moved beyond endorsement and described what authors called a growing bullying problem at Sylvia’s school. A letter attributed to Sarah Riley said administrators were "stonewalling parents" and alleged staff turnover and reliance on unlicensed paraprofessionals for classroom coverage. The text urged "aggressive action before a legal branch of child safety results in grievous harm or death of a child," language read into the record by a letter writer.

Committee members asked procedural questions about redaction of prior citizen input that had mentioned staff names. Mister Kynes asked for consistency and an explanation after recalling that an earlier letter had been redacted because it named staff. Committee members said they would follow up and provide the requested documents after the meeting. A speaker said they had consulted with attorney Finckless and that if the subject of a letter consented to have her name read, counsel permitted reading the name into the record.

The letters submitted for the record included signed endorsements from classroom teachers and community members who described Santos as reliable, empathetic, and collaborative. Several letter writers asked that their letters remain confidential unless the writer consented to disclosure.

The committee acknowledged receipt of the letters and indicated it would provide copies to members before proceeding to executive session on related personnel matters. The meeting moved on to an executive-session request and then to a motion to adjourn; the transcript ends before a complete public tally of the final adjournment vote appears in the record.

Because the comments were delivered as written letters read into the public record, the subcommittee’s public transcript records allegations and concerns but does not include committee findings or formal decisions on the substantive claims about school operations or individual personnel.