What’s Up with Superintendent Cyndy Taymore?

Not sure what is going with Superintendent Cyndy Taymore and her unprofessional behavior and rant during last Tuesday’s school committee meeting. She displayed poor behavior in front of the cameras and before high school students present during the meeting. This all came about during the public session when Gerry Mroz discussed the signed teacher’s contract last September and his evaluation of it after obtaining a copy of it.

 Gerry Mroz provided hard copies of his 4 page analysis of the contract to all school committee members in advance of the meeting and he briefly summarize his analysis during the public session indicating numerous inconsistencies and inaccuracies in its content, as well as ambiguities which require additional clarity. He also noted that there were many inconsistencies between the Memorandum of Understanding, which the school committee had agreed to and the actual wording in the final written contract signed in September of 2013. For this Mr. Mroz was pilloried by Ms. Taymore using the word “damn” so many times in her tirade and emphasizing how hard she and her staff had worked to move this school system forward even though under her tenure these past several years the percentage of students going onto 2 & 4 year colleges has been decreasing!  

The question remains that considering teachers have recently received the largest pay raise in Melrose history, averaging 22-27% over the 3 year contract, why shouldn't the residents of Melrose expect more from its teachers and school leaders?

Ms. Taymore should spend less time talking about how hard she and her staff work and spend more time in improving student outcomes and to “clean up her act” if she expects the taxpayers of this city to consider her a credible administrator.