Kevin Clifford: Challenging Bullies

This is in response to SAU 9 Superintendent Aimee Frechette’s astoundingly misaligned letter, which appears to have been drafted to generate sympathy by manipulating public feeling but is grossly misplaced where she states "innocent members of our school community" have in some way "become victims of public bullying and misguided aggression." Amazingly, somehow public criticism from those paying Ms. Frechette’s roughly $175,000 per year salary is now "bullying and...aggression" when confronted with the reality that this administration is being exposed for purportedly concealing bullying and abuse to protect a few important names in the valley.

Frechette also does not reveal that her husband is deeply involved in the hockey program, a close friend of the head coach, and has a conflict of interest. We asked for her recusal when we met with the school board over the abuse allegations, but Frechette refused, instead allowing Conway School Board Mike DiGregorio to defend her. DiGregorio is the same board member who stated they were not taking the abuse allegations seriously because of his false allegation that I was a "convicted felon." DiGregorio subsequently also threatened me in public at a supermarket in North Conway in front of my family but went crying to the police claiming he was a victim in a bid to conceal his juvenile behavior. These are desperate actions of those who have something to hide.