MANCHESTER – The acronym for military slang term “snafu” can’t be spelled out here but it was an apt description for a recent incident involving the school district’s ROTC program.
Manchester Township High School ROTC students had a competition to attend on March 18 and when they arrived at the school to pick up equipment and supplies that morning for that event, they discovered the school doors were locked.
That problem led to a firestorm of social media posts by parents of the high school students and residents that were critical of what had taken place as the students were prevented from making the competition.
There are approximately 20 students that take part in the school district’s ROTC program.
School Superintendent John Berenato held a special meeting with staff of Manchester Township High School (MTHS) concerning the incident at the high school that had unfortunately impacted the ROTC participants.
Berenato spoke to the building administrators at MTHS the Monday after the incident. They expressed to him that this was sincerely an unfortunate breakdown in communication between the high school building staff regarding who and how the high school would be opened at 5 a.m. on Saturday so that students could access competition equipment.
The superintendent said this had never happened before and is truly unconventional. The staff held a meeting with the parents and students on Tuesday to provide a full explanation.
Berenato told The Manchester Times that MTHS is looking to revamp procedures to ensure this does not happen again.
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