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Public Commentary Dear Editor: The Massapequa School District that boasts integrity and excellence in education has shown the true colors of a school district drowning in a cesspool of politics. After five years of my trying to get people to see the light, it has finally been illuminated just how little the students and taxpayers mean to this current School Board. The Massapequa Post and Tiffany Elliot did a fine job providing readers with a story of the likely political suspension of Superintendent Maureen Flaherty. The suspension came right before graduation and the Class of '07 had a cloud of impropriety hanging over their celebration. In my opinion, Arlene Martin lost this election due to arrogance, nepotism, carelessness, lack of compassion and most of all, lack of integrity, a word she used to throw around like a Frisbee. Integrity does not suspend a superintendent for a non-criminal act in the eleventh hour and provide no details to the public under the guise of protecting the suspended person. Anyone who believes that this superintendent was not a scapegoat, please stand on your head, if you have one. The Arlene cult is trying to show they would like to govern our schools with intimidation and vindictiveness. What this self-serving Board fails to realize is that people are becoming more involved and not buying the ridiculous excuses for incompetence, nepotism and failure. Arlene should get over it and pitch in and help new Board member Tim Taylor. But no, Arlene and some of the Board to date have not even congratulated Tim on his victory, offered any help with transition or even acknowledged him. Is this integrity? Every Board member has contributed to the travesties that hold the people and students in last place. They sent an unsigned letter about the suspension only to parents of students and not to all constituents of the district, typical disregard. It is interesting to note that one Board member voted to oust the senior citizens that work the election polls, likely in retribution of Arlene's loss. Public officials, normally at graduation, were not invited to attend, possibly due to who they might have supported. In a last effort to force its will on the people, without its new representative Taylor, this School Board called a special emergency meeting three days before Arlene was officially ousted. Only the gullible would believe this is anything but suspect and inappropriate. Integrity, I seriously doubt this Board know the means of the word. It's sad this School Board doesn't get it. "You can fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all the people all of the time." I again remind this School Board, the people will endure, it is our School District. Gary T. Bennett, Massapequa
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