POLITICIANS’ COVERUP IN SCHOOL DEPARTMENT SCANDAL HAS OUTSTRIPPED THE ORIGINAL CRIME
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY APRIL 15, 2025) — The coverup often overshadows the actual malfeasance. Bitchfield’s entire political cadre is about to learn that painful lesson, one that history teaches with eagerness, force, and certainty.
Already the cost has been enormous:
- The continuing erosion of public trust in government
- The public’s prevailing belief in local government’s massive corruption
- A refusal to believe anything the school committee, mayor, or council claims
- Indelibly blackening the personal reputation of school committee chair Bill Cameron and others.
The coverup of alleged and widespread sexual activity involving PHS administration/staff and students began in 2023. It appears there were PAID suspensions then, after which the culprits were brought back to their positions, as if nothing had happened except their pay raises.
If the city had the luxury of honest policy makers and others in leadership positions, it would have been out in the open with charges. Those charges, which THE PLANET believes would have been substantiated, would have been made public, and there would have been consequences in the form of firings. The school committee also would have had the head of its superintendent.
Instead, the school department, PHS administrators, superintendent, mayor, school committee, and city council ALL decided to engage in subterfuge. This is what THE PLANET means when we say that Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski literally do not have any representatives in authoritative office. Not one. Instead, the Kapanskis have a rogue government.
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The mayor, an ex officio member of the school committee, had an interesting observation: “… quite frankly, part of the argument may be its cost, but how much more money have we already spent and how much time have we gone down this rabbit hole to still have this black cloud hanging over our head without the public buying into anything that happened?”
Mixed metaphors aside, the answer always can be found in the question.
Mayor, the money you have spent has been wasted. Not only have you let child molestation continue, not only have you paid a fortune to let it happen, but you’ve managed to forever alienate the honest, taxpaying citizens who work hard, keep up their properties, and repeatedly find themselves corn-holed by their “representatives.”
Money? Lead investigator Mary Lou-Rup has the meter running at $275/hr. Her paralegal soaks $110/hr. That’s $385/hr times countless billable hours. THE PLANET understands about inflation, and everything, but the cost of whitewashes now exceeds the price of eggs.
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A summary ought to be rejected out of hand. It’s the full report or nothing. No redactions and no what the bureaucrats call “segregable portions.”
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Cameron, in explaining his decision to keep the report hidden, cited “privacy” of the accused/culprits, but that doesn’t wash. Follow the logic:
(a) Cameron will not release the findings to the public
(b) He’s therefore hiding the results
(c) Which in all likelihood means those who were charged have been found guilty
(d) Guilt overrides any privacy issues. It’s called crime reporting.
Of course, the other possibility is that the investigation found that all of the allegations were made up. Nothing to them. Nothing to see there. In that case, keeping the findings hidden will make the accused guilty in the court of public perception.
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Clueless committee member Sara “Miss Jane” Hathaway, Les Mis herself, wants it both ways: “We all want the children to be safe, but we have to follow the law and the law, in this case, comes down in favor of privacy, as it should.”
Les Mis, judging by your (in)actions, you’re lying. You do not want “The Children” to be safe. You want the perverts to be protected. And let THE PLANET school you on the law. It’s not “the law” that “comes down in favor of privacy,” it’s the $385/hr. advice that’s telling you to do so because it’s what you’ve paid them to say all along. You should know a thing or two about “coming down.”
Officials have been talking about releasing an executive summary of the investigation.
That ought to be rejected out of hand. It’s the full report or nothing. No redactions and no what the bureaucrats call “segregable portions.”
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“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”
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Powerful post about Pittsfield politics and the Level 5, Group 11 public school district’s scandals.
The people, social media and blogs are protecting the students, while the local officials are protecting the bureaucracy.
The students fear retribution in Pittsfield. Like the students, I wouldn’t trust the local officials as far as I could throw them.
Especially if you had to throw Behnke!
Stopping by PHS recently I noticed your cousin Mayor Pete had your Golden Fist state champion pocket pool player trophy removed from the PHS trophy case. You were state champion from1992-1994 right We tried to warn you about posting bad things about your own family but you never listen Johnny now this.
The 2-Pete’s Pittsfield politics has NOT done one good thing.
The crimes should have been reported to the DA in 2023.
Pedophilia is a felony. But it seems the Administration and those who oversee them are infested with pedophiles.
FOIA requests should be the next step.
What is current status of the drug dealing dancing Dean? Was he selling at work?
Release the report!
They will hang Barsanti as a sacrifice. Death to the white man
Whether guilty or innocent, the results of the investigation should be released to the public. This is so basic. It is outrageous that we have to beg to have this information released. The public has the right to know that students in the school will be safe from sexual predators. The city has the moral obligation to release the results of the investigation and to do so promptly.
Powerfully said, PAT.
The ghost of Carmen haunts PHS.
What about Red?
Pittsfield relied on the DCF to investigate the allegations against school administrators? That’s like having a coyote investigate a missing chickens incident……
https://www.infowars.com/posts/massachusetts-took-custody-of-five-children-after-doctor-reported-parents-for-not-vaccinating-baby-report
It would have been cheaper and also more thorough, if they hired a retired Police detective to do the investigation. Someone from outside the area, who specializes in abuse cases.
I would be lying to you if I said I were shocked by any of this. How can you be?
Pedophilia, drag shows for kids, porn (Gender Queer) books for kids, is what democRATS tell us is normal behavior. The rest of us are “conspiracy theorists,” or “homophobes,” or whatever other flashy catchphrase they come up with.
When I went to school, you learned the subject of the class we were in. Unless it was a history class, WE DID NOT DISCUSS POLITICS (TDS). I knew ABSOLUTLEY NOTHING about my teachers’ private lives, much less their dating lives. They were trusted figures in the community. Not out combing the high schools looking for dates.
After reading your post Dan, I believe they are also hiding this report to protect Linda “Flat” Tyer-Clairmont.
If it were to be known that she allowed known pedophiles back into their positions of trust around juveniles; after becoming fully aware they committed these heinous acts on these same juveniles, this might put her $100,000/yr job at BCC in jeopardy. I believe she might also be civilly liable (perhaps criminally), without government protection of qualified immunity, if this behavior continued after the fact of her returning them back to their same positions within the PPS.
Redacting names is a joke. If there are 5 juveniles in the report, take their names and identifying information out of the report and name them “Juvenile 1,” “Juvenile 2,” etc. The police do it all the time. Problem solved. Example:
*Tammy Smith, Bitchfield High Scohol, assistant to the assistant of DEI, sent a picture of her “goodie basket,” to “Juvenile 1,” who in-turn, shared the picture with “Junvenile 2” and “Juvenile 3.”
From this example, we would know Tammy Smith, is a pedophile, who showed an inappropriate picture of herself to a juvenile she is trying to groom for sex. He/she then showed the picture off to another juvenile.
See, Miss Jane Hathaway, it’s not that difficult, unless you’re trying to PROTECT SOMEBODY.
RELEASE THE FULL REPORT!!!
Your mentioning of prior administrations is relevant. A proper peeling of this onion might expose a whole basket load of covered up misdeeds involving any number of higher ups in the chain of command.
Prolly a who’s who of the lawyer-ed up folk throughout the system praying for the coverup to hold steady. They can probably tie it up in court for years with the taxpayers paying for their legal bills.
You don’t bury something like this unless the consequences of its public airing are dire. The mayor should go public with his version as that is part of his job. VP White needs to get out in front and represent the people unless he has reason not to.
“Officials have been talking about releasing an executive summary of the investigation.
That ought to be rejected out of hand. It’s the full report or nothing. No redactions and no what the bureaucrats call “segregable portions.””
Agree 100%
That’s why the former judge was hired. To ease the peramiters.
The local rag did a story about PPS potentially losing big time bucks over DEI policies vs. Trump policies. Novel idea – how about they get rid of their racist DEI policies & positions? If they don’t, they’ll lose about 48 staff as well as various programs in place.
And according to Cameron – with Curtis leaving there will be no one to coordinate new school building with state & local authorities. May be a blessing to our pocketbooks!
Is the PPS facing an implosion?
O p e b is imploding.
Let’s hope it implodes. Their budget should be cut 25 percent and the rest of the city budget 15 percent.
Score another potential huge victory for President Trump and DOGE.
These foolish MA democRATS are doubling down on their racist DEI policies, are going to be in for a rude awaking.
Americans overwhelmingly voted to end these racist programs.
We watched Shirley Edgerton, Michael Obasohan, and AJ Enchill, fleece the taxpayers for over $1,000,000, simply for being black. No more, no less.
Not one of them have produced a job for a non-family member and/or friend. Not one of them have ever talked about the gun violence in the black community. Or the illiteracy rates that plague the black community. They will tell me how I’m racist though for being born white. Make that make sense.
If I were a PPS union member, I’d be speaking to my union leadership and telling them it’s time to sacrifice the few DEI employees, or risk losing a bunch of employees. This isn’t a “For the Children” scare tactic like used during contract talks. This is reality.
If Trump cuts federal education funds over DEI policies, Pittsfield schools could lose over 48 jobs, officials say | Central Berkshires | berkshireeagle.com
democRATS keep your Marxist policies and TDS alive and kicking. It’s working, see:
Democrats’ approval remains at low point: Poll
You see who is stepping down? Coincidence?
Tom Fitton and Judical Watch, have filed a FOIA, on Pam Bondi and Kash Patel for the Epstein documents
The PHS principal is “stepping down” at end of school year.
She should have been fired!
Release the full report!
There is no doubt. Happiness is Pittsfield in the rear view mirror.
Happiness is Massachusetts in the rear-view mirror! This state sucks.
Middle &high school students in Burlington, MA given sexually explicit survey….
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/parents-burlington-massachusetts-furious-after-students-as-young/
Yup,
Bitchfield’s has become one of those places where people don’t want to live.
It has become one of those places you want to move away from.
PHS principal suddenly decides to leave her job. Gee, wonder why?
Maybe she does not want to be part of the cover up but does not want to lose her pension by speaking out. She is in a tough position along with a bunch of other teachers.
The Eagle will get to the bottom of it though.
The Eagle has got to the bottom of the trash bin.
The need to promote Molly and Ali!
Matt Bishop should be next to step down.
Or any public employee that goes on stooges show.
Okay, but how will we know who not to vote for if they don’t go on his show?
Wouldn’t be surprised if he says bye,bye next.
Maggie-Harrington-Esko has been an extremely liberal principal of Pittsfield High School. and she is stepping down from her position. That hardly means that a less liberal principal will be brought in to replace her. Not in this city. A very practical principal is needed. One who discourages teachers and others from getting emotionally involved with the students regarding their gender, their sexuality, or any other emotionally charged issue would be a step in the right direction. That means going against the liberal agenda in the schools that has been encouraging that type of interaction.
Pat:
“That hardly means that a less liberal principal will be brought in to replace her.”
Liberals destroy everything they are put in charge of. However, their snake oil sells to other liberals and they keep putting whacko leftists in charge.
April 15, 2025
Hello blogger Dan Valenti,
Education is a system of indoctrination to control the population through cultural propaganda, government authority, financial elitism, fear and retribution – bullying, and the like.
There are many negative theories about education.
I have read that education reinforces the class structure to keep the general population in class conflict and socially stratified – similar to all bureaucracies, education is a system of class and status.
Note: I thought that: “All men [and women] are created equal” and therefore, we are free in the U.S.A., but education contradicts “The Declaration of Independence” – there wasn’t public education in 1776 and many years thereafter, but many of the Founding Fathers owned Slaves despite their hypocritical beliefs in (Classical) Liberalism.
I read that the classroom is designed for operate conditioning and negative reinforcement towards unaware children who are conditioned to take abuse from adults which then passes to each other.
I believe the small cities such as Pittsfield (Massachusetts) use the state administered, federal funds that total in the tens of millions of dollars as large sources of revenues instead of to educate the students in Pittsfield’s Level 5 (failed), Group 11 (impoverished, underclass) school district.
I believe that the elected officials in Pittsfield are protecting the bureaucracy instead of the students, who fear retribution, with the Pittsfield School Committee’s actions that favor secrecy towards the controversial public school scandals.
I know that between 650 to 700 students per academic year choice out to neighboring public school districts, which cost the city millions of dollars per academic year in lost revenues.
Pittsfield is a very economically unequal community with an excessively large underclass population that is used by City Hall to bring in as much state administered, federal aid funds to the small city for the purposes of sources of state aid revenues to City Hall. I call it “Perverse Incentives”.
I was taught that good governance meant that the career politicians invested our tax dollars in the people and the community that we live in. Instead, Pittsfield sees everyone and everything as sources of state aid revenues for City Hall to spend, spend, spend….
I predict that the 2-Pete’s Pittsfield politics would-be proposed fiscal year 2026 municipal budget will increase municipal spending by around 8 percent year-over-year. It will be another record-setting high municipal operating budget in Pittsfield politics that the average local tax and fee payer won’t be able to afford.
Jon Melle
I think you made the “classical liberal” thing up regarding Colonial American political thinking. Was a whigs like to call his Tory counterpart a Marxist?
Classical liberals I believe, are Republicans pre-Phil Ochs.
Sounds anachronistic.
Didn’t know John Adams, Hancock, Franklin, Hamilton, and hundreds more were slave traders, but Kamala has a great uncle who was.
Education and FUNDING in Bitchfield is an Entitlement. Always has been and always will be. It’s the….VOTING BLOCK !
Can someone please clarify Ali Shepard’s (of Shepherd’s Pie fame) status at PHS? I understand she has been “cleared” by DCF; however with her online reputation how can the PPS administration, in good conscience, restore her to her former position as Asst Principal? She has violated their own online policies. As a parent I would not want her anywhere near teenagers! Or kids of any age!
She’ll be the next principal. Back and black
So who amoung the Pittsfield administration HAS seen this investigative report? Mayor? Peter White? Cameron? District Attorney?
Can they withhold it from the mayor or would he rather not have anything to do with it?
If we put int an AI model, the facts we do know including all the dancing around and secrecy, and asked it to do a report, what would it come up with?
The smart money says it contains the names of school personnel who will resign so they can spend more time with their families. They just want to stop and smell the roses.
Gotta get rid of this d e I. It’s unfair and COSTLY.
The Chinese Commies are funding Wu……
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2025/04/14/report-boston-mayor-michelle-wu-funded-by-ccp-intelligence-official/
As Christians prepare to celebrate Resurrection Day, we also give thanks that Biden is no longer in the WH!
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/14/franklin-graham-on-trump-white-houses-holy-week-celebrations-what-a-contrast-to-easter-last-year/
May the Lord, King of the Universe, blessed be His name, bless Joe Biden and keep him faarrrrr away from me.
From the sound of today’s speech by Dementia Joe he is far away. I think he’s orbiting Saturn.
He could do to push it even further down the line.
He’s in your rear view.
From early-1973 to 12-noon on January 20th, 2025, Joe Biden spent his political career in the Swamp for a little over 52 years of his a little over 82-year-old life.
Joe Biden gave his 1st speech since departing The White House on Tuesday, April 15th, 2025 – only 5 days less than 3 months as a private citizen who is worth millions of dollars.
The rest of the country lives in reality instead of inside the beltway of politics, power and money.
The fictional Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski family lives and works hard everyday to reside in the PITTS.
Jon, you voted for him 3 times, 2008,2012 and 2020
https://www.iberkshires.com/story/78657/Pittsfield-Council-Tables-DCF-Background-Check-Ordinance.htmlWilson
There it is, abusing children counts as “diversity”. That’s why they have to cover everything up, and why they’ll continue even if it means losing federal money. This is similar to how the liberals in the UK allowed South Asian immigrants to systematically rape and prostitute girls under state care. There are probably already pimps in Pittsfield Public schools, a few years from now we’ll find out the “shocking” news.
I actually agree with this decision. DCF is a joke and by their purview 90% of parents are abusive (since most of them are single, mentally ill themselves and childless)
literally in the article… letting your child play Roblox is considered neglect
Noto makes a good argument. Her conclusion is good too – go after the abusers in the Scohol dept.
Hope she runs against Dina. Sounds like she makes sense.
However, her primary point: DCF registries discriminate do not satisfy the broader concern for filtering applicants. That aspect is weak. The State frequently uses weak based assumptions to bar people from work with laws pertaining to public safety.
Also, the argument is based on promoting the advocacy objectives of her employment and that basis is incompatible with the primary law of governance which is providing 100% accountability for the spending of taxpayers’ money.
*clarification: the State uses speculative assumptions to bar people for public safety.
Her use of examples leads to to her conclusion, but you should also ask how did roblox tie into the DCF decision? What happened?
She is persuasive, but not argumentative. The Council got itself swooned.
So it’s lumpy’s idea and is enthralled with all the d e I hirings. Looks like Dina’s close.very close friend,Mike Taylor is closely in on the d e I hirings.
One other item on island panhandling? Do these panhandlers enter the island via the crosswalk? I doubt it. Bottom line on these safety nuisances, just don’t give them any money and if someone abruptly stops in front of you causing a rear ender then the city shall or should be libel and the driver stopping shall be libel .
As far as this Hitchcock fella,he’s not even a Pittsfield resident?and keeps crying Sue the city? Well Sue him!
If the funkin panhandling is a nothing?paccording to three minute speakers at c c. Then why the hell did Marchetti bring this issue up in the first place?
I agree. Our local DA should do an undercover operation on Pittsfield High School. What higher authority can we use to force these PHS investigations to be released to the public? They are not going to release these records willingly.
April 16, 2025
The New Hampshire State Senators will vote on a bill to take away municipal property tax credits benefits from permanent and total 100 percent service-connected disabled Veterans such as myself.
New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte should speak out about HB 99 because tomorrow, Thursday, April 17th, 2025, the New Hampshire State Senators will vote take away the optional veterans property tax credit if someone such as myself is receiving the total and permanent 100 percent service-connected disabled Veteran tax credit, which means that my Town of Amherst, NH, would no longer have the ability to offer me both veterans property tax credits.
There is nobody representing me anymore in the government. Governor Kelly Ayotte does not represent me, as she never replies to my letters to her. Donald Trump does not represent me, as he has made deep budget cuts to the VA, as well as terminated the federal employment of thousands of Veterans.
Meanwhile, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed the HERO Act into state law. She represents me even though I live in New Hampshire. I hope that Maura Healey will run and be elected U.S. President in 2028.
Jonathan A. Melle
Make yourself useful. Run for office in New Hampshire.
Healey sucks.
It sounds like you might have to actually get out and work to pay your bills like the rest of us.
I would certainly cut this tax credit from you. You don’t need it. You’ve posted that you’re 50 or close to 50 years old. That gives you 15 years to work.
Let me guess, your Dr’s have told you that as part of your PTSD, you’re allergic to working or hard work?
You could work any number of jobs such as gathering shopping carts from a parking lot, stocking shelves, washing cars, janitorial work, mow grass or shovel snow, just to name a few that don’t require much brain power or public interaction. You’d be perfect.
You get ZERO sympathy from me.
There really very jobs that require brain power.
There are very few jobs that require brains.
JM, I wanted to buy you an early Christmas present. Here you go:
Governor Kelly Ayotte on X: “We won’t let them MASS up New Hampshire! I look forward to signing a ban on sanctuary cities to keep our communities safe.” / X
NH Governor Kelly Ayotte “won’t let them MASS up New Hampshire.”
That’s music to the ears of a normal, non-Marxist, American loving individual.
Get a job.
If you can wipe your ass, you can work.
Just because you can, doesn’t mean you have to. Therein lies the problem- the handouts, phony disability pensions, free heat, free phones, free groceries, free apartments eteffingcetra make it so they don’t have to work.
That’s why I’m glad President Trump and Elon Musk, are cutting out this fraud, waste, and abuse.
There are many out there like Jonathan Melle, who could work, but find being the “perpetual victim,” is more convenient and lucrative.
Self pride be damned!! I want my guberment handout.
Letisha in deep guano…..for following the Dem playbook……accusing others of violating the law when she is actually the one breaking the law. Karma baby!
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/16/letitia-no-one-is-above-the-law-james-accused-of-doing-exactly-what-she-prosecuted-trump-for/
Your typical phoney politician. Plenty of those in Bitchfield.
It’s Letitia dill…buffoon
And what does she, Marilyn Mosby, and Racist Rollins have in common?
All three are shucksters, hucksters, and race baiters, just like Reverand Al. And they all got caught red handed.
Marchetti is pretending to want taxpayer ideas for the redesign of North street. HEE HEE. If you say you would like to see traffic entirely eliminated and replaced with large clay bricks and huge park like lawns you may get your wish. Insiders are saying that the condo owners overlooking North street would like to see a more European, people friendly space conducive to gathering spaces of scholars and elitists so they would feel more at home. Word on the street is that they (and those coming to the continuing build out of condos) have much clout. Condo owners are salivating over the rent increases such a vista would allow.
Bad idea. North St. is social services central. Attracts all kinds of characters from the west side, home of troublemakers.
The town I grew up in (larger town in PA)took that approach to “transforming” their dying downtown and it backfired spectacularly. Cut roads to one lane each direction and landscaped the whole area to look like a park. Thugs began hiding behind the bushes and muggings increased. Became hell after dark. A few years later the trees and bushes were removed to increase visibility & safety for the officers on foot patrol.
Who owns the condo buildings down town? Is HON pushing this? Downtown cannot be magically made over as utopia without permanently removing the layabouts, homeless and poor.
Agree. Downtown is dragging the whole town down. Why keep pouring our taxes into one street? We all pay the same.Yet North St. keeps getting millions while our streets are crumbling all over, be realistic, it is what it is, social service alley. It will never come back. Not to mention our local activist newspaper is actively asking for donations. If you can’t make it on your own, close your bullshit business down.
Allegrone owns The Onota building and the Howard building and is the company redoing the Wright Building.
https://www.allegrone.com/companies/real-estate
If that happens, it will become a bum infest skid row, just like the once wonderful pedestrian mall in Burlington,Vermont.
This stinks more than the sunk weed odor on Dalton Ave. The next time the suits are confronted with a so called investigation they should try the 5 W’s Who, What, Why, Were, When and How. It wouldn’t cost as much and the results would be the same.
Fire Powell!
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-04-17/fed-trying-crash-stocks
Happy Easter and Passover season everyone. I hope the city leaders realize they have lost the trust of the people that they are trying to govern. A step to try and bring some more faith to the people is to confess your sins (audit and full disclosure of all misdeeds). Until this takes place I don’t see how they can ask for forgiveness or anything else from the Kapanski’s