Mr. DePatsy has over 15 years of administrative experience K-12, with 13 years spent as Director of Instructional Support. Most recently, Mr. DePatsy was the Director of Instructional Support for RSU5, where he was responsible for Special Education, Gifted and Talented, Response to Intervention, Section 504, and English Language Learners. Prior to assuming his first directorship, Mr. DePatsy was a special education teacher specializing in behavior and also spent two years with the Department of Education as a Due Process Consultant, responsible for areas of mediation, complaints, and due process hearings. 

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I would like to open a discussion that several teachers brought to me after Open House. Apparently it is posted on Facebook that we are going to MCI colors and Mascot. As I explained to the students, that is not my decision but rather, a community discussion that needs to take place. I heard that people are upset that MCI "controls" us. I feel in my year here, that couldn't be further from the truth and in this instance, it certainly has no bearing. This is NOT a push from MCI, but rather, an on-going conversation that students come to me with, about why we "can't be Huskies and have MCI colors." The children's reasoning, so they have said to me is that "we are 'Little Huskies" right up through 6th grade and then we become the Rebels for just two years. Every thing we own is already Maroon and White, and none of us want to, and some can't afford to, spend money on Green and Gold for two years." This is what students consistently and repeatedly say to me.

I have also had complaints by several students and parents that the...