By Guy Page
The Randolph school superintendent who punished a female student for protesting changing her clothes in the presence of a biologically male student announced his resignation earlier this month.
On a December 8 Front Porch Forum post, Layne Millington, Superintendent of the Orange Southwest School District, said he is “proud to be able to leave an incredibly strong foundation to the next superintendent” after seven years leading the district.
“While I have cherished this opportunity, it has not been without its challenges. Six years ago, OSSD was in dire shape by nearly every measure. Today, the district is performing well above the state average. Over the last six years, the district has been transformed and I am now ready for a new environment and challenge,” Millington wrote.
He listed among his accomplishments:
- Students’ test scores above the state average and those of neighboring districts.
- Two of the district schools this year earned Best School Badges from Newsweek.
- Creation of a full-day public preschool for all four-year-olds to better develop students’ social and academic foundations in support of later learning.
- Creation of a million-dollar K-12 STEM program.
- Creation of a full district-wide curriculum team
However, Millington will be best remembered by some for supporting school administrators’ decision to discipline Blake Allen, a member of the girls’ volleyball team, who objected to a biological male team member watching her and the other girls undress. The school eventually paid the Allens cash to settle a lawsuit filed by the family.
Millington also oversaw the firing of Blake Allen’s father as a school soccer coach, banned the “Let’s Go Brandon” and “there are two gender” T-shirts, and called a Chick-Fil-A fundraiser ‘hateful.’
In an interview with the Herald, the weekly community newspaper for Randolph and surrounding towns, Millington said local blowback from the Allen affair contributed to his decision to leave.
“I let the board chair know a few weeks ago that I had no desire to seek another contract,” Millington… “I made this decision over a year ago,” the Herald reported December 14. Millington was “so deeply saddened and disheartened” that more people didn’t support him at the time, he said. He, his family and students and staff faced death threats, he said.
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Millington listed among his “accomplishments”
“Creation of a full-day public preschool for all four-year-olds to better develop students’ social and academic foundations in support of later learning.” I would question why, but I think we all know why this is in his opinion, a win, and it’s not “to better develop students’ social, and academic foundations”. It’s better known as indoctrination into the lefty, woke culture. The younger they get to these children, the easier it is for them to program them.
No amount of other accomplishments could overcome the imposition of the kind of woke mind virus that would have girls required to get naked in front of someone with a penis. Good for the Randolph community that he decided to move on. Hopefully they’ll find someone to replace him who will actually focus on teaching real curriculum. Unfortunately it’s hard to be optimistic. I suspect government schools in Vermont are too far gone.
Good Riddance!
“Millington was “so deeply saddened and disheartened” that more people didn’t support him at the time, he said” Not as deeply saddened and disheartened as the people seeing child abuse, child endangerment, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and sexual exploitation of a minor perpetrated with impunity. Keep up the pressure – all must be held to account, resign or be removed for criminal conduct against children.
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, perhaps a job awaits you at Harvard if you can you plagiarized your PhD thesis………….
An aside: Re: “On a December 8 Front Porch Forum post….”.
I haven’t received a FPF post since the end of October. Are they still publishing in Windham County?
FPF may have kicked you off, Jay, for being a bad boy. Try logging in.
from Billboard , paraphrased : only the weakest males want to compete in women’s sports and only the weakest of intellect celebrate and support them.
pervmont is exposed
Another Woke Jokester relegated to spineless status…
Millington is one symptom – the disease that plagues Randolph has been festering for a long time. The source of the disease is multi-layered, but mostly citizens that have blindly put their trust in so called “professionals” that have entered academia with a Leftist agenda that continually tries the norms.
Layne was hated by much of the Swampscott community where he was superintendent and we drove him out of town. You can easily research this on the Internet. We pity the town that would ever again be deceived by his arrogance and duplicity.
Ba-bye!