Dear Editor,
I have worked for the Windham School Department as a part
time custodian for 22 years. I got a letter in the mail from Bill Hansen saying
there was no CHRC certificate in my employee file. They sent me a form to fill
out to send to the state with a $10 fee. I did not know what CHRC stood for. (I
have been a real estate broker for 31 years, so I know about filling out
forms.) I went to the superintendent’s office to find out. Bill was on vacation
and the only person to help me wasn’t there anyway. One of the custodians at
the high school showed me the form. It stood for Criminal History Record Check.
So I completed the form and sent it in. In today’s world you have to be careful
with you social security number and Visa number, so on the form I am sending
through the mail – my name, social security number, mailing address, phone,
birth date and Visa number. I hope it gets into the right hands. It made me
wonder why the Superintendent’s Office wasn’t handling this.
In the meantime, Holly sent me a letter saying after many
attempts by Bill Hansen to provide me with the information necessary to begin
this approval process to date she does not have a copy. So my status as a spare
custodian for RSU14 had been changed to inactive and I could no longer work
there. (There were only 10 days I could have worked because school was closing
and I didn’t work when school was out.) I called Holly and left a message, she
did not return my call. I got a form back for the state saying I had to have my
fingerprints taken.
I went up to the Superintendent’s Office with the letter
and forms from the state to talk with someone. A lady came out and I gave her
the letter and forms from the state. She took them in to talk with someone. I
guess Holly was too busy to talk with me. The lady came back and said I have to
have my fingerprints taken. But I said they have had my fingerprints for years.
They were taken years back when I was working at the
school. She said then I should have kept them up to date. How would I know I was
supposed to keep them up to date?
I could go and have my fingerprints taken, but it was
probably time I got through. I enjoyed the job and the custodians were always
so nice to me. But to get a letter in the mail saying I could no longer work
there after 22 years made me feel bad.
Nancy Larrivee
Windham
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