'Very Disappointing' Pool of Applicants for Swampscott High Principal Role: Superintendent

Swampscott Public Schools Superintendent Pamela Angelakis was decidedly underwhelmed with the caliber of applicants applying to take over the principal’s office at Swampscott High School.

In her Jan. 8 update, Angelakis said there had been 32 applicants at that point and she had already reviewed more than three-quarters of those applications.

“To say the caliber of applicants is very disappointing is an understatement,” Angelakis wrote in her update. “They do not match my vision for SHS or the Swampscott Public Schools,.”

Because the pool was lacking, Angelakis continued, no interview committee had been formed at that point.

Applications will be accepted through Jan. 29, and Angelakis planned to offer more details at that time.

The principal search comes after former principal Edward Rozmiarek abruptly resigned in December when an online sting allegedly caught him engaging in sexually explicit conversations with a person posing as a 13-year-old girl.