When Robert Cianciulli stated, at the most recent Berkeley Heights Board of Education meeting, that the recent finding of ethics violations would be appealed, I had hoped he was just making noise.  Sadly, it’s true.  Faced with a decision by the Office of Administrative Law and the School Ethics Commission, Pamela Stanley, Robert Cianciulli, and the rest of the former BOE members are not going to apologize and move forward.  No, indeed.  They are going to waste more taxpayer dollars and take this back to court.

This is the ultimate hypocrisy from Pamela Stanley, who has often accused other Board of Education members of harming our children and putting our teachers last.  Where is Mrs. Stanley’s concern now?  It is certainly not with the children, the teachers, or the taxpayers who will be on the hook for ever more money.  Two and a half years of legal expenses apparently is not enough.  There is no apology, no promise to set aside the differences she professes to try to rise above.  As we saw during the last meeting, there is no effort to work together or reach any kind of consensus.

Mrs. Stanley is in this for herself, and only herself.

Why Mr. Cianciulli, Mr. Hyman, Mrs. Penna, Mr. D’Aquila and Mrs. Young are still interested in dragging this out is another question that we will probably never see answers to.  Did they really all jump at the chance to increase legal costs to the district to continue a process which, for all but Mr. Hyman, is completely irrelevant, given that they are no longer BOE members?

Lastly, Mr. Wenczel, of the law firm Cleary, Giacobbe, Alfieri, Jacobs – the very same law firm that led the BOE members into this atrocious mess in the first place – is still representing the board members.  Apparently, they will continue to profit off the hard-working people of Berkeley Heights.

This entire thing is disgusting.

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