The outpouring of support for superintendent finalist Vito Perrone has solidified the former high school principal’s desire to take the reins at the district schools, more than four days after he said the School Committee rescinded the offer when he used the word “ladies” in an email greeting to two female board members during contract negotiations.
Former students and colleagues, community members and even strangers from as far away as the United Kingdom have weighed in on the committee’s alleged reason for quashing the superintendent job offer to Perrone.
“I wish, in the moment, we had a different conversation about my use of ‘ladies’ as a greeting and used it as something we could grow from instead of it just being a closed door, no negotiation, no acceptance of an apology,” Perrone said just a few hours before more than 150 people rallied outside of the city’s Municipal Building Monday evening, demanding that the committee hire him as superintendent of schools, as it initially intended to do.
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