The city of Concord is in the news a lot these days, and not for the better. The Concord Monitor, Patch, the New Hampshire Union Leader, Boston TV and WMUR are all reporting on the handling of the case of accused sex-abuser and former special education teacher Howie Leung.
While there is talk that Concord High School Principal Tom Sica is on the outs, as of this writing no one has lost his or her job.
We the citizens of Concord cannot let this matter rest. We must demand school leadership, school board members and school administrators be held to account.
Secrecy has become all too comfortable in our city and was additionally manifest in a “covert” $5,100 purchase for “surveillance technology” by the city council. Some have surmised this purchase is for software to ping cellphones – but we citizens are not even allowed to learn the vendor’s name.
It is time to end our school board’s unique, autonomous status, politically diversify our school and city boards, and insist on the full truth.
CHUCK McGEE
Concord