Michael1942's Blog

The Springfield Urban League has fallen on hard times.The Head Start program (administered by the League) has and continues to suffer while the program flounders under the leadership of the “Dark Maiden”, the legally organized Union employees are being indiscriminately terminated under dubious circumstances. The leadership of the Urban League is continuing to allow the under serving of the community through the mismanagement of the Head Start program. The Head Start workers who have served for years in assuring that the children in this program are afforded the best service, safe class conditions and personal safety are being eliminated for speaking out against injustice and mismanagement. It appears that the one thread in these firings and poor management is the “Dark Maiden”. If one does not kow tow at the feet of the “maiden” then your days are numbered even if your record of service is exemplary. There are workers who have been retained even though their backgrounds would negate their employment anywhere else. This creates an aura of apprehension and uncertainty while allowing the services to spiral downward into a deeper hole. Recently the remediation of mold in several buildings has been down played because of the administrations desire forestall any investigations into their poor management of the facilities. What we have is a pattern of behavior that is ruining a normally exemplary program