The resignation of Gloucester County School Board member Deborah McDonough was announced at the end of the board’s February meeting held last Wednesday, Feb. 12, at the T.C. Walker Education Center auditorium.
School board chair Leonne Arsenovic read aloud a written statement from McDonough on her departure at Gloucester County Public Schools.
“This is not a decision I’ve made lightly,” McDonough wrote about her resignation. “My parents are elderly and unwell, and last week I moved them to an assisted living facility. I am their primary caregiver and they require the majority of my time at this point, leaving me little time to perform my responsibilities on the board.
“The students, teachers and parents of GCPS deserve a board member who is able to devote the necessary time to this very important work, and I currently do not have that time. It has been my great pleasure and privilege to have served in this capacity, and I am very grateful to have been given the opportunity,” she wrote....