FORKS — While Quillayute Valley School Board member Paul Headley turned in his letter of resignation during last week’s board meeting as he vowed, that doesn’t mean he is really resigning.
On Friday, Headley said he may or may not rescind the letter.
“The meeting went well, I think,” said Headley of Tuesday’s School Board meeting during which his resignation was one of the more salient items on the agenda.
“Things have started coming into play.”
Headley did not elaborate on what exactly that meant.
But he did say he is giving himself time to think over his decision to end his tenure on the board.
“I did turn in my resignation, but I do have time to reconsider it,” Headley said.
“I haven’t made any decision either way yet.”
Public uproar
In an interview on May 5, Headley told the Peninsula Daily News that he intended to quit the board.
“I’m not going to be part of an organization that’s not doing its job,” Headley said at the time.
His primary complaint was that the School Board wasn’t doing enough to provide answers to the public about the public uproar that erupted in April over Forks High School’s administration.
“[Public outrage] has died down, but it hasn’t gone away,” Headley said.
He also urged a third-party mediator be welcomed to the district to investigate the roots of the discontent, which centered mostly around high school Principal Steve Quick.
Asked to stay
“I very much expressed my sincere desire to have him remain on the School Board,” said district Superintendent Frank Walter after last week’s School Board meeting.
“I think that all of the five School Board members bring different perspectives that contribute to the whole, and that’s a healthy thing.
“I personally want Paul to remain, if he will.”
Headley and other members of the board discussed his resignation during the meeting’s executive session, to which members of the public are not privy.
“When we came out of executive session, we came to a sort of decision to make a no call [on Headley’s resignation],” Walter said.
Headley’s letter said he intended to leave the School Board by June 21.
