The contentious reign of Exeter School District Superintendent David Ryan will be coming to a close when his contract expires at the end of the 2022-2023 school year. He and the board have agreed not to extend it.
The SAU 16 Joint Board and David Ryan have agreed mutually not to extend his current contract after it ends on June 30, 2023. He has served since 2018 and will continue through the end of the 2022-2023 school year.
That’s still a long time from now, so he’s got plenty of juice to keep things screwed up over there. If you’re not clear on why here’s a good place to start. Then you can go here, and here, and maybe here.
Apologies for the likely search results overlap, but we have hundreds of articles on the Exeter Cooperative School District circus and its most recent ring leader David Ryan. But the bigger problem remains—the School Board.
The board, in a statement, said Ryan had been responsible for the “overall educational growth” of more than 5,000 students in seven districts that comprise SAU 16. SAU 16 includes 11 pre-kindergarten to adult education, schools serving the towns of Exeter, Brentwood, Kensington, East Kingston, Newfields, and Stratham. The board said he worked “to implement curriculum and innovative instructional practices” that furthered the district’s competency-based learning. Ryan was also credited with building “strong community partnerships.”
They left out all the lawsuits he has attracted and the legal fees, so the board is still a problem. The next candidate for the job could be like Ryan or worse. I’m not even sure you can do better at this point. The pool of supers for public schools appears to be poisoned by the education-industrial complex.
Woke dopes who are more interested in the next thing than academics or rigorous standards. You know, graduating kids that don’t need to take basic math and reading in their first year of college because the over-funded education system at the town level is cranking out inadequately prepared snowflakes.
Maybe a few more lawsuits will get him out the door sooner? Who can say, but the board appears smitten, so thoughts and prayers go out to the parents who are not blinded by the smokescreen or afraid to run toward the fire. You could benefit from a serious change in direction, but you’d need a different school board to get that.
And good luck with that, assuming you survive another year of David Ryan.
HT | Patch.com
