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"LESLIE, YOU NEED TO DO MORE THAN JUST COLLECT A PAYCHECK"

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Here is the kicker, the Pricipal that Leslie had in the barrel for a while for the new Weaver has been the mentor/coach for the administrators at Hartford High...well that's going well. Circular incompetence with blah blah blah of education-psycho babble to dazzle the irrelevant non connected BOE

May 11, 2019 at 3:38 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...


COME ON NOW LESLIE TORREZ COMES IN EVERY DAY LATE SHE LEAVES EARLY.
She makes all that money $276,000 Dollars and does nothing.
I should know I work there. Whites have to be on time --Do all the work can't leave early.
Blacks and Hispanics do nothing But Leave early complain all day-- Take long Lunches.

All Leslie does is Talk on her phone --watch tv and play with the computer.
Fire her but they won't just give her all that
unearned money and a city car.

May 11, 2019 at 9:54 PM

Blogger KEVIN BROOKMAN said...

I don't think she gets a City car but she does get a substantial monthly car allowance

May 11, 2019 at 11:46 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I believe her initial contract granted her $300 a month car expenses

May 12, 2019 at 11:51 AM

Blogger Madame X said...

Let's not talk about how whites are doing all the work because they come in early and can't leave early. I work in Central Office as well and plenty of whites come in late and leave early. Have held positions in the supervisors union, while not having any staff reporting to them. What about the whites that go walking for an hour and sit at their desks and eat lunch for another hour. What about the white executive secretaries being transferred once problems arise with them. Blacks and Hispanics are shown the door. Whites are complaining just as much if not more than Blacks and Hispanics. What about the number of whites at Central Office in executive positions that are not qualified. So now it's a race issue because the majority in control are Hispanic and not white women. Contrary to your racist views, the problem is the LACK OF COMPETENT LEADERSHIP. It amazes me that you believe Central Office is operating solely by the whites. How pathetic. How much can you be contributing if you are watching everyone else. I am sure that you didn't save your complaints for blog only. With all of your observations, you have been walking around complaining just like the Blacks and Hispanics. One last note, there are whites who don't take lunch and eat at their desk. By the end of the week they leave early. This is done on a weekly basis. Eating lunch at your desk every day does not mean that you leave early. So get off the race issue and join in on demanding NEW AND COMPETENT LEADERSHIP. Remember it's not about the adults, it's about the students.

May 12, 2019 at 5:38 PM

Blogger Madame X said...

Kevin you are correct, the Superintendent does not drive a city vehicle. The Superintendent works for the Board of Education not the City of Hartford. She does receive a car allowance as do all of the Executive Staff. I suggest individuals who want to comment, speak facts.

May 12, 2019 at 6:05 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

LOL I was wondering who was gonna bring up the race issue hilarious. Diversity means Anti-White and Equality means Oppresion to the Entitled smh

May 13, 2019 at 2:00 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

@ Madame X you are right on.. there are many in positions who are not qualified to be in them a few who were hired as support tech staff for programs to help teachers who now have grandiose ideas and think they are certified admins who can tell people off and dictate how it is going to be with no certification at all. It is not about race it is about competence or the lack of it in most cases stemming from downtown.

May 13, 2019 at 4:43 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...



Well Leslie Torrez is Hispanic
If She Was White Her Ass would be Terminated!!!!

FACT FACT FACT

May 13, 2019 at 5:31 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

@ 5:31 PM Torres would never have gotten the job if she were white. They chose her over Tim Sullivan. Sullivan was qualified Torres was not. Race and gender was chosen over qualification.

May 14, 2019 at 5:51 AM

Blogger Madame X said...

Not so because Stephen Adamowski was WHITE and he was allowed to stay for eight years and the district still hasn't recovered. FACTS, FACTS, FACTS ANS MORE FACTS.

May 14, 2019 at 8:24 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Kevin, why are you posting all these racist comments. This is about the kids, who's competent, and who is/isn't doing a good job. Making it racial is just noise that gets in the way of that.

May 14, 2019 at 9:45 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is not about race, it is about the failure of leadership in the past few administrations. Stephen Adamowski's admin was the last time the district saw real year over year gains in achievement. He did this by giving the responsibility to the leadership at the schools and held them accountable for success or failure. Many of the staff received performance bonuses for exceeding improvement goals. The best thing he did was clean out the wasted payroll in the central office. He created a ghost town down there. The subsequent administrations have rebuilt the centralized power and payroll. The amount of taxpayer funds that are wasted on coordinators, directors, coaches, and assistants for the superfluous data counters and collectors is resources that are not available for instruction. The current decisions are coming from Chief of Schools. She is bullying and berating anybody who does not KowTow to her wishes. Many think she has placed herself between the principals and the super. The queen's court are playing the emperor's new clothes and the super needs to open her eyes and see it. The principals cannot do what they know is good for the academic and social growth of their students because downtown rules with fear and intimidation. Check to see how many building level admins are on administrative leave. The board needs to eliminate the cabinet level positions, redesign a flatter and efficient management structure and hire competent leadership. The time is now. All administrators should have to reapply for their jobs. These changes will bring about success for the students rather than the enrichment of those at the top of the pay scale.

To paraphrase Madame X Big Facts.

May 14, 2019 at 12:56 PM

Anonymous 186 Terry Road said...

Leslie is the worst Super in the last 100 years

May 14, 2019 at 1:36 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Rumor has it 100% of current hphs administration will be reassigned prior to next. For the sake of the students when will Leslie be fired and a beautiful and capable administration be hired at hphs

May 14, 2019 at 5:22 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

yeah they'll spread the poop around

May 14, 2019 at 9:11 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Adamaowski destroyed Hartford Public Schools! He is a shock doctrine storm trooper. The district's data was more cooked under Adamowski than it is now and probably ever was. He created too many schools. That and the transportation expenses that came with "choice" is why HPS is bankrupt. The choice nonsense was a scam as well. There is no choice in Hartford schools and never was. Central office sticks kids wherever they want and concentrates the most difficult ones in what's left of the old neighborhood schools. They assign the better students to the magnet schools and also fund the students at a greater rate. Then they scapegoat teachers for the low achievement in the schools that have been set up to fail. The charter school movement gives a lot of money to political campaigns, both democrat and republican. They want our schools and the tax money that goes with it. Everyone gets bent out of shape about DeVos and her policies, but democrats were doing the same things for the eight years before she came around. Remember Stefan Pryor? Remember the fiasco in Bridgeport with Paul Vallas? Arne Duncan? Mallow was an enemy of public education. The people behind this are still at it. Luke Bronin appoints the majority of the Hartford Board of Education. He took a lot of charter school money. Do you think it's an accident that the school district is in complete chaos? Now with the no discipline approach to manipulating discipline data, even the magnet schools are going to hell. What better excuse for privatization.

May 14, 2019 at 9:50 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

No sweet cheeks at 12:56 big lies..Adamowski destroyed HPS. He was nothing but a raging drunk who harassed women. He set up school budgets to torpedo HPS just like the failing Cincinnati school district he ruined prior to HPS. Hired a moron to oversee special education who literally over night eliminated every continuum of service HPS ever had. Got rid of the only solid reading program the kids ever had and did not raise anything other than his own bank account balance that's for sure. Obliterated bilingual education because he "did not believe in it" and created the circus we all now live in. Christina was more of the same only with more central office fools to sort through and the know zero dame from Harvard was a waste of money and bad joke. Having the schools runs the show has lowered scores and left classrooms without supplies books paper and you know the actual item kids need to learn called a good curriculum but hey all these corporate big shots downtown are doing swell.

May 15, 2019 at 12:05 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I concur with 12:05
The current issues are just the snowballing effect of years of incompetence from downtown, now it is at its pinnacle

May 15, 2019 at 7:53 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Bronin appoints the majority of the BOE. He could begin sweeping change tomorrow or make sure the central office staff is held accountable for a number of things including increased student achievement. He won't lift a finger, because he doesn't care.

He wants the State to take over the school system so he can go on TV, take off his jacket and show how he "rolled up his sleeves" while others solve his problems for him again.

May 15, 2019 at 9:05 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Torres should have been fired months ago. The Hartford Board of Education should have never hired her she was not qualified. Hartford Board of Education has no clue and has not for a long time.

May 16, 2019 at 5:21 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

In corporate world you run an organization into the ground you get fired. At Hartford schools you run a school into the ground and you get reassigned. And the same story continues. Just look at next board meeting agenda

May 18, 2019 at 7:08 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

@7:08 you know it..HR is spectacular at recycling the trash. It is the career mission statement for talent management with regard to administration in public education.

May 18, 2019 at 12:12 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Another Discrimination lawsuit against HPD is in Federal Court.

May 26, 2019 at 11:02 PM

Blogger KEVIN BROOKMAN said...

11:02

Details? Name?

May 27, 2019 at 12:27 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Employment Discrimination by a former candidate, more details coming soon.

May 27, 2019 at 10:44 PM

Anonymous Facts said...

The current superintendent of Hartford Public Schools does a lot behind closed doors; however, I can assure that what she does behind said doors is always in the interest of Hartford students and the community. The decisions everyone on this thread imply as being "better than" or "will solve these problems" have repercussions that are fathomable by those of you lacking position or experience. Further, the discussion of salary on all threads pertaining to Dr. Torres-Rodriguez is clearly out of spite and jealously as she works more hours than can legally be covered by her contract. Additionally, on the subject of politics, no superintendent, especially in the city of Hartford, can perform their role unparalleled to the cities politics and/or politicians.

These threads are simply a sad, yet funny, demonstration of the inability of unhappy Hartford residents to intelligently express their concerns. The unheard state of these opinions have nothing to do with the superintendent or HPS administration, rather the failure of everyone on these threads to rationally and logically take action and be heard. Anonymously slandering public workers for their possession of the degrees and achievements you lack is exactly why they are in the positions they are in when you are not. Seeking validation in the way demonstrated on this website is psychologically proven to be a characteristic of low self esteem. One cannot possibly believe that they possess the ability to solve the problems of a city or public education system when they have yet to even identify their severe individual flaws such as the ones evidently present in most of you. Thus, I recommend seeking the root of your individual problems rather than attack others in an attempt to masque them.

November 9, 2021 at 2:30 PM

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