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Teachers, parents urge board to protect staff and model civility during packed public-comment period
Summary
About 14 community members — many current and former Somerset teachers and parents — used public comment to praise district staff, urge the board to counter online harassment and call for civil discourse; some speakers urged limiting abusive comments or enforcing rules, but the board deferred formal action to its policy committee.
About 14 community members addressed the Somerset School Board in a lengthy public-comment portion of the meeting, with a steady stream of teachers and parents defending staff and urging civility.
Teacher Stacy Belil, who identified herself as a seventh- and eighth-grade social studies and ELA teacher at Somerset Middle School, described classrooms where students are engaged and praised administrators and volunteer staff. "We are not teaching subpar academics — we are very good at our jobs," Belil said, recounting examples of teachers volunteering before…
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