Doc Wollkind Retires
Thirty-two-year (BHS) math teacher after a three member impartial tribunal earlier that month. Superintendent Anthony Bivona recommended Wollkind’s termination in December 2010 after over two days in November 2010.
During the hearings, the school district’s attorneys referenced 18 prior recorded incidents in Wollkind’s personnel file and . Wollkind’s attorney brought the panel’s attention to , a disorder on the Autism spectrum that is often associated with poor social skills. Wollkind, who , stated that he was trying to use humor to connect with his students and that .
Throughout the hearings, Brookfield Patch received tons of Letters to the Editor, the vast majority in support of keeping Wollkind as a teacher. They can be viewed in the .
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Academically Talented Program
In early Board of Education (BOE) budget discussions, , a program intended to . After an and , the BOE to the program.
iPads at BHS
Brookfield freshmen piloted a in September, the first of its kind in Connecticut. of the proposal at first, though they of replacing textbooks with tablets. The BOE and administration were able to sell the experimental program to the public with the understanding that .
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New High School Principal
In April, BHS principal Bryan Luizzi announced that he would be . The BOE vetted but eventually .
Palumbo and former Math Department head .
Full-Day Kindergarten
The Board of Ed in the 2012-13 academic year, a program they , including holding .
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