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Members of the community spoke out at a board of education meeting in the Moravia Central School District.
The meeting came a month after the district’s middle and high school principal was placed on administrative leave for unknown reasons.
Bruce MacBain had posted to Facebook last week- drawing heavy support of the community then about his circumstances. In his view, he was not informed of a reason for his leave- nor was the district being forthcoming about their reasoning.
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There are even more questions swirling around Moravia than before after principal Bruce MacBain was placed on administrative leave.
That’s because he posted on Facebook that the entire thing is a mystery- even to him. The district cited personnel privacy concerns, noting that they could not go into further detail.
“I was shocked to discover on March 11 that I was being placed on “paid administrative leave’,” MacBain wrote. “There was no warning or hint that this was happening. I walked into a meeting that was scheduled to be a negotiations meeting and instead it was an ambush. I was told the District had received numerous complaints about me. When I asked what the charges were, the District said they couldn’t say until they had investigated them, and tha
7 hours ago in Education, Local Photo: WHCU
ITHACA, N.Y. (WHCU) A Moravia school principal is on paid administrative leave, and he doesn’t know why.
Bruce MacBain has spent three decades working in the Moravia Central School District. Last month he was placed on paid leave for reasons, according to him, never disclosed by the school board.
MacBain posted on his Facebook page he hasn’t done anything immoral, adding there was no hint or warning from the district. He became principal of the middle and high school last spring.
On the district’s website, John Birmingham is now listed as interim principal. MacBain has been on paid administrative leave since March 11th.