Melrose Alum/Teacher

I am a lifelong Melrose resident as well as a Melrose High School teacher and alumni. This is my fourth year teaching and my fifth year if you include my student teaching or, seventeenth year if you include my time spent learning at the Ripley, Hoover, three different middle school campuses, and the high school.
In my teaching experience I have had the pleasure of working with nearly 1,000 kids.
Where did this number come from? Along with my academic classes, I have coached boy’s indoor track and am coaching girl’s cross country. I have advised the Model UN and Mock Trial. I am currently advising the Ski Club, Reach Leadership, and Students Against Violence. I have developed some long term relationships as I coach middle school track as well as working at Students Without Borders.
If you want to know more about me as an educator, feel free to contact me at ntuccinardi@melroseschools.com, or simply ask your son or daughter; they are certainly the best and most important judge.
I do not include my aforementioned involvement to brag and I do not stand out from my colleagues in that regard, many of us can rattle off a similar list of involvement and all of us give our all for our students.
That being said, as I write this I can’t help but think about my younger, highly engaged and compassionate peers; we are the teachers Melrose stands to lose if the Override fails.
I have heard some members of the community say that the proposed cuts in Budget B are “fear tactics” and to those people I would like to say, “You’re right.”
I mentioned that I am in my fourth year, well, there are three teachers in the English department alone who have less seniority than I do; they are indeed afraid that they won’t have a job come September. So yes, we are feeling the “fear”.
I have received a first class education in Melrose. My colleagues and I strive to deliver that same first class education to the current and future generations of Melrose High students. I appreciate the support from the School Committee, the Board of Alderman, the Superintendent, One Melrose, and many others in our community. To those who are not on board yet, I ask you, as a former student, a current teacher, and hopefully a teacher that will be here into the future, please, adequately fund our schools.
Thank You,
Nick Tuccinardi