Paula Patterson was appointed interim principal at Point Arena Elementary in November of 2006 by Point Arena Superintendent Mark Iacuaniello.
Iacuaniello and his lockstep school board had just fired Matt Murray although Point Arena Elementary’s test scores, discipline, campus safety and parent support had dramatically improved during Murray’s tenure. Murray had been hired to drag the perennially troubled school out of what amounted to state failed status.
Ms. Patterson had been the English Language Development Coordinator at the Point Arena High School when Iacuaniello picked her to replace Murray.
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So Murray wasn’t “there” for the teachers. Who were the teachers there for is the question. I suspect themselves.
Read John Taylor Gatto to understand and realize that they don’t want your child to learn. That isn’t the point of school.