Hundreds of students, parents and grandparents pleaded Wednesday night with the Stroudsburg Area School District board to rescind their recent decision to essentially fire Superintendent John Toleno.
The school board was handed a petition signed by 400 students supporting Toleno, who learned at the board’s last meeting that his contract would not be renewed.
Students and parents lined up before a microphone, repeatedly asking the board to offer a reason for the decision. It never came.
But the board did agree to vote on whether that decision should be rescinded.
By a 5-4 vote, the board voted the matter down, meaning Toleno would be leaving the district at the end of his contract.
The board members who voted to keep Toleno said they did not know the reason behind the move to replace Toleno.
“I don’t know why,” said board member Jake Jakobsen. “It’s not a personnel issue. It’s a personal issue.”
Students who pressed the board to explain their rationale received rounds of applause and standing ovations.
“The students of Stroudsburg High School are speaking,” said Adam DeSchriver, a junior who is vice president of student government.
He asked the board, “Will you listen?” and argued it was their duty to put the students’ interests above anyone else’s, including their own.
A parent, Robert Ferrier, asked the board “to speak to us.”
“Otherwise, the whole decision smacks of political dirty tricks.”
Others questioned why the board would want to undertake the task of finding a new superintendent and incurring thousands of dollars in expenses in the process.
“You’re wasting our money, looking for a new superintendent, when you already have one,” said Lindsay Paradise.
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