New principal in, board member out

When was the last meeting Brenda Worob attendend? Morrisville= Land of the Double Standard

From the BCCT:

New principal in, board member out
By: GEMA MARIA DUARTE
Bucks County Courier Times
MORRISVILLE SCHOOLS

The school board also set the salary for the acting superintendent.

The Morrisville school board gave the acting superintendent a $120,000 salary, hired a new high school principal and gave the boot to school board member Robin Reithmeyer because she had not attended a meeting in a year.

The board hired Donald Harm, a retired employee of Pennsbury School District, to take over the responsibilities as the Morrisville High School principal, the position formerly held by acting Superintendent William Ferrara.

Harm's salary was set Wednesday night at $60,000, which will cover the reminder of the school year ending June 30. Ferrara's $120,000 salary is for one year and is retroactive to Sept. 22, when he was appointed to the position, after Elizabeth Yonson resigned also in September.

Details of Yonson's resignation haven't been disclosed because board President Bill Hellmann has cited that her abrupt leave is a personnel matter.


The salaries of Ferrara and the hiring of Harm came after more than a 30-minute long executive session, at which time personnel matters were discussed.

It's unknown whether making Reithmeyer's seat vacant was part of those discussions. The issue wasn't on the agenda, but Hellmann brought up the vacancy suggestion at the last issue for discussion.

During a brief discussion, board member Marlys Mihok said Reithmeyer last attended a meeting in October 2009. Mihok added that there were a few times the board received indications that Reithmeyer would attend some meetings, but didn't show up.

School board member John DeWilde said that he hopes for her speedy recovery.

"From what?" Mihok asked.

DeWilde didn't respond.

Confirm or deny...have at it!

Since our return to the blogosphere we have kept relatively quiet. However just because it's not on the blog doesn't mean that all things are peachy keen in the schools. Here are some things our sources have been saying:

1. Double standards- There are various things that have been affecting the PTO in a negative manner. Last year the PTO was giving strict guidelines on how to operate and how to fund raise. Very recently there has been a few fundraisers where the PTO was left out of the loop, and the guidelines that the PTO is made to follow, were not followed by these groups. For example, the PTO last year wanted to do a pajama day fundraiser for the 5th graders. They were told the 5th graders were not allowed to wear pjs to school, therefore it could not be a fundraiser. Very recently there was in fact a pajama day, which included the 4th and 5th graders, the PTO was not involved in this fundraiser, and found out about it after it happened.
2. Why on earth would an organization ask for popcorn donations when the PTO owns a popcorn machine? Once again the PTO was told they could not do more than one popcorn day a month. Now it seems like it's ok to do so as long as the PTO is not involved. This may come off sour grapes, but the PTO has worked very hard for the kids the past year to be underhanded, and undermined by the administration. Thumbs down for double standards.

2. In preparation for next year the color guard coach wanted to recruit 5th graders to be part of the guard next year. Makes sense right? The kids are already at the school and the coach could get a jump on practicing the routines with new members. Guess what she was told? Give up? She was told NO! The reason given was 5th graders were not allowed to participate is because they would then have to let them do the same things that were offered to the 6th graders. Guess what is offered to the 6th graders? Don't know? 6th graders are allowed to do band,chorus, and color guard. So what is the harm in letting 5th graders do color guard? Thumbs down again to the administration.

3. The question was raised at the last board meeting regarding the music teacher situation. It has been well discussed that this teacher will be teaching kindergarten next year. This comes from a very reliable source. So for the board and administration to look surprised when this question came up is a shame. Unless there really is some back room deals going on that the administration or board members do not know about.

There are people behind the scenes trying to make Morrisville a better place. It's a shame whenever someone has a new idea it is immediately shot down. It's a shame when there are sets of rules for some and not for others. Let's work together to make Morrisville a better place to live.