Meeting exposed Adam Urbanski’s failings
Written by Janice O’Rourke
Guest essayist
Adam Urbanski’s contentious, bitter, self-centered focus on defending his “dignity” and “legitimacy” with the Editorial Board while trying to avoid answering honest questions about the teachers union position was eye opening.
He was asked no fewer than four times what is required to get teacher “buy in” to be able to make progress with the new or interim superintendent.
Instead he talked about his history with Jean-Claude Brizard and how he “brought Rochester to Brizard’s attention” in an effort to recruit him here until he realized that Brizard and he “had different goals.”
He also talked about how he was receiving “naked hostility” when a community member of the Editorial Board questioned the fact that Urbanski is the one constant in a revolving door of school officials to fail the school district, the children and ultimately the community.
If Urbanski’s attitude is any reflection of the way he “collaborates” with school officials, it is no wonder that the teachers and the Central Office cannot find a solution to the many problems facing the Rochester School District.
It is obvious to me why Urbanski says people try to avoid bringing him into the conversations where decisions are made.
He is a decidedly negative influence.
What I cannot understand is why, after 30 years of this dysfunction, do the teachers, the educators in the Rochester School District, continue to elect this man as the president of their union.
O’Rourke is a community member of the Editorial Board.
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