Superintendent job offer rescinded over use of term "ladies" in email.

The Easthampton School Committee rescinded its offer for Vito Perrone to lead the district as superintendent after he used the term "ladies" in an email to the committee chair, citing it as a "microaggression." Perrone, who is the interim superintendent of West Springfield Public Schools, said he was shocked and devastated by the decision. He had addressed the pair as "ladies" in the email that was going over three negotiation points after the School Committee had offered him the superintendent job. Growing up in the 1960s and 70s, Perrone said the terms "ladies" and "gentlemen" were respectful, and it's why he used "ladies" in the email.