View the Report of Berchem, Moses & Devlin, P.C.

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If you take a close look at the whole issue, what difference is another report really going to make? This whole matter is going to come down to one person's word against another. Judging from what I’ve heard and seen, the Boards attorney found one more instance of grade changing (a total of 5) than the Administration’s investigation did. The conspiracy theorist (see my very first post ‘Who We Were') are saying “yeah well of course, it's the Board’s attorney. They work for the Superintendent”. What a bunch of crap. That’s just not true. Berchem, Moses and Devlin are one of the most respected law firms in the state. Visit their web site (I put a link on the side)and take a look at their client list, I have. They represent more than 15 municipalities, over 25 Boards of Education, 80 plus corporations and various third party administrators. In my opinion if our BoE retained that firm and said ‘do the investigation, but here’s the result we want……. Berchem, Moses and Devlin would have said ‘find someone else’. They have way too much to lose. Even if the Attorney General’s office found another 10 cases of grade changing, that still doesn’t meet the 100% criteria set forth by the Strategic Plan. For those who didn’t read the last page of the report I posted (click the title) and for those who didn’t do the work and graduated anyway, I’ll do the math. There have been 25 students who have not graduated in the last 6 years. That’s 16 more students that haven’t graduated then in the 5 years prior to our present Superintendent’s administration. If channel 8 had done their homework this story would never had made it to the news.
Like the majority of you, I’m tired of reading the negative press our town gets. The press doesn’t get its information on its own and I doubt very much if the Superintendent calls them. I know, as well as many of you know, who they are, and they stop at nothing until they get what they want. If it’s not the Superintendent it will be someone else. They’ve already targeted the Board Chair and Councilor Bigelow. They don’t like people saying ‘no’ to them and anyone who doesn’t do their bidding is fair game. Many of them are public officials and their statements to the public and comments to the press put our town at risk. If I were the Superintendent I would have retired already with my slander and deformation of character settlement and been done with these Bozo’s. The BoE needs to decide if the Superintendent has been playing favorites to some students or if the fault lies on Dr. Perry’s shoulders, take the appropriate action, and put this behind us. This is not the big scandal that a some would have you believe.