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Pastor Marwyn & First Lady Barbara Reeves in front of their church Christ Community Worship Center, Inc.
Talkwilliamsport.com has learned current WASD school board member Barbara Reeves works alongside WASD high school principal Roger Freed at Christ Community Worship Center, Inc.
Freed is listed as:
NAME: LIFE CAMP
LED BY: Pastor Roger Freed
NAME: Women’s Ministry
LED BY: First Lady Barbara Reeves
NAME: Youth Ministry
LED BY: Mitchell Floyd & Roger Freed
Photo Courtesy: CCWC Facebook page
Roger Freed at Christ Community Worship Center, Inc 6-29-19
From the article “Colossal Failure happening in the WASD” published earlier this week:
“According to data presented, the academic courses that are currently being failed at the high school level this marking period total 2,932 or 32%. At the mid-marking period assessment, the total was 2,968.
Remote learning only students accounted for 1,203 or 54% of the total failure number.”
According to WASD superintendent Dr. Timothy Bowers, “Williamsport remains one of only two school districts in the Intermediate Unit that is not back to five day per week in-person learning.”
Prior to the meeting this evening, the WASD sought input from parents in the district by sending out a survey seeking guidance on a possible return to five day per week in-person learning, a hybrid option or remote only learning.
By an overwhelming majority of the 3,044 households surveyed (79.6% response rate) in the WASD, 1,422 or 59.37% supported a return to five day per week in-person learning. Adding in the 135 households that would switch from the current hybrid to in-person learning brought the total to 1,557 respondents or 65%.
The three-day or more absence rate has exploded in the hybrid model.
- Grades K-4 rate stands at 416 compared to 40 for this same time last year an increase of 900%.
- Grades 5-8 rate stands at 270 compared to 35 for this same time last year an increase of 600%.
- Grades 9-12 rate stands at 507 compared to 42 for this same time last year an increase of 1,107%.
In the event Freed works with Reeves at a local church, would that cause a conflict of interest for the Williamsport Area School District?
Since Freed is a high school principal in a building that has one-third of the classes being failed this marking period and 507 absences with a growth rate of 1,107% year-to-year; did Reeves cast a vote to provide protection to a known associate?
If this is indeed the case, should Barbara Reeves have recused herself from voting?
That scenario would have created a 4-3 majority to return to 5-day per week in-person learning.
If Reeves and Freed are engaged in an employer/employee or co-worker relationship; would Barbara Reeves need to immediately resign from the WASD school board?
As a footnote to the story, Pastor Roger Freed has previously served as the Camp Director for LIFE Summer Youth Camp at Christ Community Worship Center, Inc.
The same Roger Freed was part of the non-criminal and criminal investigations at WAHS into the 2018 WAHS baseball team trip where “criminal sexual misconduct” occurred.
That case is currently being investigated by PA Attorney General Josh Shapiro and the Myrtle Beach Police Department.
Earlier this year when fellow WASD school board member Adam Welteroth made a motion to launch an independent third party investigation into the Myrtle Beach case, Reeves sat silently by.
WASD school board member Barbara Reeves declined an interview request for this story.
