Nancy Pickhardt resigns from Missoula school board, cites 'distraction' - Missoulian article from the August 26, 2010 edition

Nancy Pickhardt resigns from Missoula school board, cites 'distraction'

Click on the link above to read about the resignation of MCPS Trustee Nancy Pickhardt from the school Board in 2010.
A quote from the article states:

"Pickhardt has been the center of controversy since the Missoulian reported Aug. 4 that she left an obscenity-laced message on the answering machine of a school board critic."

Another quote from the article states:

 "The message was a personal attack against a man who wrote a letter to the editor of the Missoulian pointedly critical of the board for giving MCPS Superintendent Alex Apostle a nearly $15,000 raise and a new contract with expanded benefits. The message also singled out the man's wife, a retired MCPS schoolteacher."

 Another quote from the article states:

  It ends: "I will miss the work and the people. For me, it has always been about helping the students and our public schools (be) the very best they can be."

missoula school watchdog - If Pickhardt really wanted to help students "be the very best they can be" then why did she vote to lease Prescott School to Missoula International School, a private school? Public school children are forced out of their neighborhoods in the Rattlesnake Valley. In the meantime Missoula International School is flourishing in one of Missoulians favorite public schools.