BOE President: I Never Wanted This Job

President Melissa Peters on Tuesday said she only took the panel's top spot because no one else would and that it's not a job she ever wanted.

over her choice to switch the committee assignments of board members after taking the presidency last month, Peters told the standing-room-only crowd that she never wanted to be the board's president.

“I just want everyone to be aware that I did not want this position, to be president of the Board of Ed,’’ Peters said. “No one else on this committee would step up and do it, so I did it."

Peters' impromptu speech was met with gasps and howls from the packed library.

It followed a long and testy debate over the legitimacy of Peters' committee appointments. She later rescinded her decision to change the appointments, calling the opposition to it "ridiculous.''

Peters from Eva Applegate, who , citing personal reasons.