She said ACT is compiling its members’ sentiments and views regarding the BOE’s sudden decision to terminate Borja’s four-year contract, which was supposed to end in 2010.
“Overall, I can say that sentiments of our teachers range from shock to anger to fear,” Miller said. “They were saddened and confused and don’t really know what had happened.”
Not everyone who has written ACT supports BOE’s decision, Variety learned.
On Thursday, BOE will hold a meeting and has invited members of the public to speak out.
ACT has no official position yet on Borja’s termination, but Miller said they’re looking forward to BOE meeting.
“We want to question the board if due process was provided to the commissioner or if he was been given ample time to correct his deficiencies, if any, before he was voted out,” she said. “That’s the big question we want to find answers to and until we hear it from the board, the group at this time will not issue an official position.”
Miller and some 20 other teachers were barred from joining the board’s meeting with the principals on Friday.
The teachers were disappointed to learn that it was not a BOE meeting and therefore not open to the public.
They requested to be allowed in as “observers,” but this was also denied by BOE.
Miller, in her e-mail to ACT members, encouraged them to attend Thursday’s meeting.
She said they “do not have the whole story and do not want to jump to conclusions.”
A letter drafted by ACT states that “we wish they had handed [Borja] a road map and given him a chance to get back on the right road, or stopped the vehicle and discussed [getting] a new driver. But throwing our driver out of a moving vehicle put the children and teachers of the CNMI at tremendous risk, especially when we’re not sure where we’re going.”
