Angela Mancini called out in report
EMSB chair Angela Mancini has been called out in a report written by an independent HR company about the state of EMSB management. They recommend barring Mancini and her supporters from running in board elections again.
Note the rather shady photo the CBC uses to illustrate this story. I don’t know the inner story here: it’s easy to jump to the conclusion Mancini is in the wrong, but it’s also possible that what we’re seeing is the tip of a power struggle.
Update: Mancini says she’s the target of a vendetta and that her complaints of harassment were not taken seriously.
dwgs 11:22 on 2020-07-03 Permalink
I had dealings with her back in the late 90’s, she was nasty and manipulative back then and the stakes were incredibly small, I believe all the bad things I read about her these days.
Mark Côté 11:40 on 2020-07-03 Permalink
Unless the law is overturned in court, there won’t be any more EMSB elections anyway…
walkerp 12:58 on 2020-07-03 Permalink
Whatever the back story, her public behaviour and her complete disappearance for months, while still being in a position to block anything from moving forward is damning enough.
Her behaviour reeks of petty authoritarian controlling a tiny political fiefdom.
walkerp 13:01 on 2020-07-03 Permalink
Just to add, that while it is good to reveal the crimes of an individual, situations get like this because of underlying cultural and structural problems. It is all too late now as Mark Côté says, but would be nice to not allow it all to be easily blamed on one individual. This way does not lead to change.
Kevin 18:41 on 2020-07-03 Permalink
@Mark Coté
That’s wrong. ALL the anglo school boards (or service centres if you prefer the new name for the same structural body) have elections on Nov. 1.
On the French side all commissioners were replaced by appointees to a board of directors (or they should have been. They were all fired/decommissioned as soon as the bill was rammed through. I don’t know if the government got around to replacing any of them, since the government did go back to lots of commissioners when they started shutting down schools in March and asked them for help — but that’s an aside).
On the English side the community elects the majority of members of each Board of Directors.
I haven’t parsed it out in a while, but I think it’s 10 parents, 6 people from “the community at large”, and 4 people chosen from principals/Teachers/Support staff/administrators.
Mark Côté 12:41 on 2020-07-04 Permalink
True they will live on in a reduced form. I’m not sure if Mancini could sit as a parent representative (does she still have children in elementary or high school?) but I guess technically she could sit as a community representative.