Longtime Charles County Public Schools’ Superintendent James Richmond announced Monday night that he would not be seeking a contact renewal, effectively meaning he would retire on June 30, 2012. Local officials reacted to the news this week.
“It’s been a long ride,” Richmond said. “47 years. I hate to leave. It’s something you spend your whole life doing. I love the system, the kids but it’s time for me to turn my attention other places. I think more importantly, focusing on the children, the successes they’re having in math, science, biotech, robotics, space challenge, there’s a lot of neat things. The reading program, the three year old program in addition to the new schools we have built. I’m not really retiring; I don’t know what I’m going to do. If I want to not do anything, I’m not going to for a while but I don’t like to use the word ‘retiring’. I’m not one of those people (to retire in the Caribbean). I may do something else but I haven’t really decided yet.”
“Charles County has been fortunate to have had a visionary superintendent of schools for the past 16 years,” Charles County Commissioner President Candice Quinn Kelly (D) said. “Mr. Richmond has made sure that students are always in the forefront, and his accomplishments are countless. You can see his work in each and every school through the child who now reads well, or the technology, or at the competitions that show off student work learned through first-class Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) program. When it comes to providing resources for an excellent education for children, Mr. Richmond never takes no for an answer. When he leaves at the end of the 2013 school year, it will only be after changing the course of thousands of lives. Charles County could never thank Mr. Richmond enough, but then again he never asks for thanks. He only asks for what is best for children.”
““Charles County has been fortunate to have had a visionary superintendent of schools for the past 16 years,” Charles County Commissioner President Candice Quinn Kelly (D) said. “Mr. Richmond has made sure that students are always in the forefront, and his accomplishments are countless. You can see his work in each and every school through the child who now reads well, or the technology, or at the competitions that show off student work learned through first-class Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) program. When it comes to providing resources for an excellent education for children, Mr. Richmond never takes no for an answer. When he leaves at the end of the 2013 school year, it will only be after changing the course of thousands of lives. Charles County could never thank Mr. Richmond enough, but then again he never asks for thanks. He only asks for what is best for children.”
“James Richmond, from what I understand was one of the longest serving superintendents in public school system certainly in the state of Maryland and perhaps one of the longest serving throughout the country,” Charles County Commissioner Vice President Reuben Collins (D) said. “I consider James Richmond a visionary. He made a tremendous impact in public schools in Charles County. Wor
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