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Parents and staff urge Roxbury board to reverse music-teacher reassignment and reconsider library staffing changes
Summary
Public commenters asked the board to reverse a decision to move a longtime middle-school music teacher to elementary grades and raised concern that library-staffing changes would effectively shutter three school libraries, providing usage statistics in support of their request.
Multiple members of the public used the board's public-comment period to press the board on staffing decisions that they said will harm students.
Tammy Pesellano (speaker 5) addressed the board in favor of a music teacher variously named in the transcript as Jessica (last name transcribed at different points as Harrison and Calderon). Pesellano said the teacher has been "a strong, supportive choir director of EMS for decades," that middle-school students benefit from her experience, and she urged the board to "reverse this decision now or at the very…
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