When I was a senior in high school in 2014, and Dr. Vito Perrone was in his fifth year as principal at Easthampton High School, there was debate over the dress code spurred on by a misguided announcement by the assistant principal at the time. My.
In her first comments about the "ladies" controversy, the chair of the Easthampton School Committee says the term was "inappropriate," in an interview with the Daily Hampshire Gazette.
The school board rescinded its superintendent job offer to Vito Perrone, after he reportedly addressed the committee's chair and executive assistant as "ladies" in an email. He is the current interim superintendent in West Springfield and is formerly the principal at Easthampton High School.
Vito Perrone is out of a job. The incoming Massachusetts school superintendent was ready to start as head of Easthampton Schools when scandal struck. No, it was not embezzlement or some stalking charge as principal of Easthampton High School where he previously served with distinction for eight years. Perrone made the unpardonable error of sending an…