The uprising against Wagner Marseille has featured petitions, letters, and social media posts that began circulating before an explosive July school board meeting.
Parents in the Wallingford-Swarthmore School District are demanding an evaluation — and in some cases, the ouster — of their superintendent, who they say has disrespected administrators and teachers and is threatening to undermine the highly ranked district.
“Organizational change often includes some level of challenge, frustration, or resistance, but it is clear that our current path is not serving our school district well or creating the kind of fully supportive environment that we need to thrive,” board president Kevin Henry and vice president Kelly Wachtman said in the statement. “It is time to reset.” They did not specify what would change.
“I just worry that the superintendent is alienating our teachers, to the point that we’re going to lose a lot of them,” she said. She also noticed growth in the administrative budget; Marseille reorganized the district’s central office and hired an assistant superintendent for the first time. After that administrator left this spring, the board last month hired a new assistant superintendent from South Carolina, at a salary of nearly $20,000 more.
Parents have drawn their own conclusions. “I just called BS,” said Allsman, whose letter to the board faulted Marseille’s “tyrannical management style,” citing “first-party accounts of aggressive and hostile language.” “For me, it’s all about the results,” said Allsman, whose letter described the district as “on a downslide, at the hands of a few.”with more than 270 signatures, seeking a “formal, independent evaluation” of Marseille’s performance.
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