Kudos to the editorial board of The Express News Group, with its “Winners and Losers” expose this week [Editorial, April 3]. It accurately portrayed what we all know: “This is a school district in deep peril. The hearing uncovered a startling stage play full of paranoid and vindictive behavior. It suggests a fiefdom where rumor and innuendo is put to good use in punishing people who fall into disfavor.”
A Letter to the Editor by Bancroft Brooks [“School Dysfunction,” Letters, April 3] was spot on. The School Board president and superintendent should resign — yes, I agree. Yet, I would go a step further and go with: The entire School Board should resign in disgrace.
The surface was only scratched as the apparent underbelly of improprieties was made public to a community. Will the Amagansett community demand actual accountability or, like many today, ignore the downtrodden?
Still here.
Joe Karpinski
Amagansett
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