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April 03, 2024
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Fired Glover educator files lawsuit BY LEIGH BLANDER Interim Superintendent Theresa McGuinness has fired the student services chair at Glover School, Ann Haskell, months after a student restraint incident. Haskell is now suing McGuinness, the School Committee and the Marblehead Public School district claiming
wrongful termination and breach of contract. McGuinness placed Haskell and three other educators at Glover on paid leave late last year, during an investigation of a Nov. 20 student restraint incident. A heavily redacted, 54-page investigative report detailed the incident and made recommendations that all staff
be trained and/or retrained in safety procedures. At least one of the recommendations was redacted. Haskell is “very disappointed and disheartened about the way this whole incident has been handled by the administration of the Marblehead Public Schools, and she feels that the four of them (Haskell and three
other educators), collectively, have been hung out to dry for the purposes of letting the administration wipe their hands of this very unfortunate incident for a student who never should have been mainstreamed without an IEP,” Haskell’s attorney, Neil Rossman, told the Current. Haskell’s suit is available for
EDUCATION
Elementary students show off their STEAM skills at packed fair
reading at MarbleheadCurrent. org. Rossman also said the investigative report recommended that the other three Glover educators not be fired or disciplined, but that one of them be removed from the Safety-Care team that responds LAWSUIT, P. A6
TOWN MEETING
Petition opposing MBTA zoning plan surfaces Noncompliance with state law could have financial repercussions BY WILL DOWD
First grader Carlie Morales built a volcano that erupts when baking soda and vinegar are combined.
Sage Flaherty explains his experiment to find out his dog’s favorite color.
BY LEIGH BLANDER From volcanoes to catapults to a chocolate experiment, more than 200 students showed off impressive projects at the second annual Brown School STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) Fair on March 28. Brown’s gymnasium was packed
Quinn Chirico, left, and Avery Crowe show off their STEAM project: oobleck.
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Third graders Will Marshall, left, and Elyse Machado learned how to (re)build a skateboard.
with kids in preschool through third grade explaining their work, as well as parents and families oohing and ahhing. Kindergartener Sage Flaherty proudly displayed his experiment entitled, “Does My Dog Have a Favorite Color?” “We wanted to know what my dog’s favorite color is,” Flaherty,
5, explained. “So we put out color construction paper and put treats under each color,” to see which one the pup preferred. It turns out Flaherty’s dog, Aughty, prefers orange. First grader Carlie Morales built a volcano that erupted when she mixed
A Marblehead man has initiated an online effort to challenge the town’s proposal related to the MBTA zoning, arguing that the state-mandated measure could detrimentally alter the town’s character and overburden its infrastructure. John DiPiano started the Change.org petition specifically targeting the 2024 Town Meeting warrant’s Article 36, a proposal designed to bring Marblehead into compliance with the 2021 MBTA Communities Act. The state law requires 177 cities and towns served by the MBTA to have at least one district where multifamily housing is allowed by right, meaning it can be built without special approval from the town. “This law is currently being challenged in court for its constitutionality and its violation of the Massachusetts Home Rule Amendment — an amendment that guarantees our city’s right to shape its own community character through zoning regulations,” DiPiano wrote in the petition. “The adoption of [Article 36] would strip us of this right.” The petition has sparked frustration among local officials who spent months crafting a plan to comply with the law, even as a related lawsuit involving the town of Milton heads to the state’s highest court. “We’ve done our due diligence to create a
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HEALTH
Physical therapist goes on global adventures Resident pens memoir, chronicling three decades of international service BY WILL DOWD
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Dr. Patricia Sullivan delivers donations to a village near Kathmandu University, where she was teaching.
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For 30 years, Marblehead resident Patricia Sullivan traversed the globe, bringing her skills and compassion as a physical therapist to patients in far-flung locales from Asia to the Middle East. Now, the PT has chronicled her experiences in a new memoir titled, “Boston, Bangkok, Bombay & Beyond: The Journeys of a Physical Therapist.” “The book is written for those who love to or want to travel; for those who want to work internationally as health care
providers; and for those who will enjoy a book chronicling years of service and adventure,” said Sullivan, 78. “Readers will share the anxiety of working in new and unfamiliar places and the problems presented by the scarcity of services and facilities available in many places.” Sullivan’s international journey began in 1989 when she received an invitation to teach for a month in Perth, Australia, where her physical therapy textbooks were being used. Sensing an opportunity, she reached out to contacts in other parts of Australia and Taiwan
to arrange a six-month teaching tour. After returning to Boston, Sullivan became the coordinator of the International Scholars Program at the MGH Institute of Health Professions, which launched her into more overseas teaching and consulting. Her work took her to Turkey, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the Philippines and frequently Thailand over the ensuing years. “I don’t think there’s any other physical therapist in the world who’s done what I’ve done,” MEMOIR, P. A7