Barbara. Lasher, principal of Westport’s Long Lots Elementary School for a dozen years, will retire June 30.
Superintendent of Schools Elliott Landon made the announcement at tonight’s Board of Education meeting.
Calling it a “bittersweet announcement,” he said, “I am happy for Barbara Lasher and sad at the same time.”
Landon said Lasher “is definitely one of the finest principals I’ve ever had the pleasure to work with. She’s a wonderful instructional leader. She’s compassionate, sensitive, very much concerned with the well-being and the education and welfare of the students in her school and her faculty as well.
“I know that she is going to be missed tremendously by parents and kids and staff as well as all of us in central office and I know the board as well. And we wish her well.”
Landon said he knew it was a tough decision for her to make and that she agonized over it for a long time. “I wish her many, many happy and healthy years in retirement,” he said.
He said a search for a successor is underway with a May 10 deadline for applications.
Long Lots has been so fortunate over these past 12 years to have such a wonderful principal as Barbara. I have been lucky enough to see Barbara in action since my first child started at Long Lots in 1996. Barbara is a wonderful administrator that has hired and retained a terrific staff. All the best in retirement Barbara. You deserve it!!
Joanne
I wish Barbara well as she has had the interests of the school at heart. At the same time I hope the next administrator is more responsive to the local residents concerns. To many times decisions have been made that force the walkers in the area to feel like second class citizens.
Complaints about school walkways being unshoveled and staff using the rear entrance driving too fast go unanswered.
The standard responce we hear, instead of walking they(kids) should take the bus.
For many of us local to the school walking is 3 times as fast.