I am even more convinced that the interim executive director and the board members who voted to terminate the founders of NECCA were not competent. They clearly did not understand their mission or the community.
And where was the due process in the form of management consultants or mediators?
How sad that Valery Bailey could not stay on, because she sounded like she was the right fit to carry NECCA forward intact, while helping its staff through the kinds of growing pains that all companies/organizations experience.
NECCA is a world-class circus school. Not once through this process was the quality of instruction compromised. Elsie Smith and Serenity Smith Forchion deeply touched the lives of thousands of students and have helped the local economy hugely.
I hope this will be a very short chapter in a long-lived history for NECCA.