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Penny MacCormack's supporters: embracing, enabling, and celebrating mediocrity

The power that MacCormack has over our kids’ schooling is amazing to me.  But what’s even more amazing is how far she’s advanced in the public education sector given how unremarkable her career has been.

Her ideas have never been featured or published in the education media, and she hasn’t distinguished herself as an innovator or thought leader.  Yet here she is as our school Superintendent, with our BOE’s enthusiastic endorsement* to administer her unproven, unproductive, and disruptive experiments on our children.

To date, the results of her efforts in Montclair have been 100% negative**, but she refuses to deviate from her destructive path.  In over one year on the job, she’s spent our tax dollars wastefully, brought horrible publicity to our district and our town, and achieved none of the goals that she laid out when she started in late 2012.

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So what can her supporters possibly be supporting?

*with the exception of Anne Mernin and David Cummings

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**If someone can identify any of MacCormack’s successes as our Superintendent, any at all, please share them.  Not successes that were in place before she came here, and not successes that she had nothing to do with, but measurable, verifiable, and actual successes that have come about as a result of her efforts, vision, and Strategic Plan.

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