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‘Ladies’-gate Leads To Second Resignation In Easthampton

May 4, 2023

Amid Easthampton’s continued search for a superintendent, another member of the city’s school committee has resigned in protest of the ditching of the committee’s original first-choice candidate.
 
In early April, the Easthampton School Committee rescinded an offer to Vito Perrone to become the public school district’s superintendent after he addressed two members of the committee as “Ladies” in an email message, sparking national coverage.
 
Two weeks ago, a school committee member who supported Perrone resigned from the committee, citing the committee’s backtracking as one reason.
 
This past weekend, a second supporter of Perrone also resigned.
 
“I can no longer work with a committee that has proven to act in ways that are detrimental to our school district and community at large,” said recent school committee member Laurie Garcia, according to the Daily Hampshire Gazette.
 
“It was a character assassination of Dr. Vito Perrone because we were repeatedly told that ‘he did not know how to be professional,’ ‘he was too cavalier,’ and he had used a ‘microaggression’ when he used ‘Ladies’ in an email,” Garcia told the Daily Hampshire Gazette.

 

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