With all due respect reverends, Ms. Johnson is inept. You and your fellow clergy diminish your credibility supporting her.

With 56K thousands kids in the system who have parents/gardians, hundreds of teachers and administrators, hundreds of "community leaders", "activists", 600K+/- total population in the city and all she could get was more than 200 people? Was it 201? Not exactly a rousing show of support was it?

"The superintendent has come under fire after the Globe reported that she took no action to discipline a headmaster who admitted to beating his wife. Johnson has since apologized for her handling of the incident." She also wrote a favorable letter to the Probation Department of the court, not just "took no action." Also, the articles have been silent about whether she wrote a recommendation for him for his new job in Memphis. Has anyone seen anything on this aspect of the matter? I would think that a principal would typically get a recommendation letter from his boss, when applying for a new job.

Administrative leave- is that paid or unpaid?

all of the above and horace small besides. as they say in the commercial-PRICELESS. what these people should have done if ya wanna talk about HONESTY and INTEGRITY, rev. hammond is to read the op-ed piece by this papers joan vennochi from jan.19th 2012 to find out who really runs the show and where the real problems lie(lit. and fig) but why let the truth stand in the way of the usual rhetorical malarkey . bottom line, the cities real crown jewels, the youth of boston are in serious trouble because of a 10th rate public school system and these so called leaders who babble about HONESTY and INTEGRITY don't have the guts to confront and question the one person responsible for the sorry state of the so called athens of americas public school system, that being the mayor of the city of boston. ma

carol johnson is nothing more than an overpaid figurehead with one task and thats to be the scapegoat for the real problem confronting the cities public school system, the blithering nitwit bagman mayor who by his playing politics with the cities schools has left the cities youths in dire straights about their futures. it's bad enough that a total mayoral toady like horace small sold out his friends, neighbors and community by helping to deprive them of jobs and low prices with his currying to and with the mayor on his stance on wal-mart being allowed into the city limits and now this coward is weighing in on the all important educational issue by calling a city council member"an angry white man intent on running for mayor." 1st of all i'm not a connolly suporter but smalls vitriol is directed at connolly because he's got the stones to stand up to the mayor on the issue of education. horace babes, john connolly is an angry man, not white, black pink or yellow who has the guts to speak his mind while a person like yourself sells out the entire community simply for the reasons of staying on the right side of the one person whose at the top or bottom of a lot of the cities problems. horace, at least john connolly is a man. ma

"angry white man" Really? Talk about injecting race into the discussion. Wow. . . Connolly has the guts to call this what it was- an incredible blunder, one in a series of blunders, that the superintendent recognized as a mistake only 4 days after the Globe story, when she could feel the heat. Not when she wrote to a judge. Not when she promoted him. Not when she sent him to superintendent training, not when she recommended him to Memphis. The schools would be much improved if more people - white, brown, yellow- got angry about the low test scores, the low SATs, the low success rates in college, the high dropout rate, and the high rates of violence against children.

I'm unclear why, in an effort to support the Superintendent, there is a need to demonize John Connolly and somehow try and bring race into this argument. Really? The headmaster Superintendant Johnson supported is African American and so is the Superintendant--and both happen to be from Tennessee. This situation actually reeks of the worst kind of cronyism.

oh btw, every one of these so-called community leaders speaking out in favor of the emabattled school chief, aint. what they are doing is speaking out and currying favor for the blithering nitwit bagman mayor who makes all the decisions and than runs and hides behind his highly paid rubber stamps when as usual the you know what hits the whatever. thats mayor gasbags way and these people like horace small and the rest are selling out their friends and neighbors just to curry favor and keep on the good side of the mayor. ma

By all accounts Ms. Johnson appears to be a nice lady who sincerely wants to be effective. But is it just possibe that perhaps she is in over her head? Yes, this is a tough job and mistakes will be made, but there probably should be more successes and fewer mistakes. When relativley simple operational items such as food prep, bus schedules and supply distribution get flubbed, we shouldn't be surprised when the real hard stuff goes wrong. She may have at one time been a great teacher, but she is lacking as an administrator and leader. Speaking of leaders...

It seems to me that the majority in attendance were benefactors of the recently passed District Charter Compact. Was Rev Hammond acting in his role of Board member of the Biston Foundation which he shares with School Committee chairman Rev Groover also an AME church.The amount of ties that can be traced from the Boston Foundation to our school committee screams for an unbiased inquiry. The petition that is online speaks to the fact of who is Carol Johnson responsible to. This is not about her failure to discipline it is her administrations continued lack of policy and protocol . We have seen this pattern in Food Mgmt., Transport and now The Personnel dept. Carol Johnsons team is costing our taxpayers too much with little return. We spend akin to17.7 k per student this is not reflected on the ground it is wasted at the top

"Angry white man?" Wow! I guess that summarizes this argument. For the rest of us - sign here! https://www.change.org/petitions/superintendent-johnson-has-lost-the-public-s-trust-and-must-resign-or-be-fired-immediately

Ray Hammond is reportedly a bestie of the mayor and, rather than be a prophet of the Kingdom of God, the good reverend prefers to be house chaplain to, arguably, one of the principalities and powers of which the apostle Paul wrote. There's your president of cheerleaders. Throw in a charter school cheerleader and a representative of a pilot school. Why would these schools turn out? Obviously the superintendent, arguably, again, as the proxy, if not the darling, of the corporate Boston, is seen as the (current) one most likely to succeed in creating sub- or non-unionized schools where faculty can be turned over faster than a hamburger patty at McDonalds after they are burnt-out, unlike the aforementioned patty. Apparently the city councilors in attendance are wary of running afoul of the house chaplains. Wasn't young Felix a union man? The real question: How many of the superintendent's family, which the word on the street says she brought along to help run the BPS, were in the audience, tearing up, weeping unashamedly, applauding?

I love you Mike!