Evelyn Nissirios — Unlikely to Step Down from Illegitimately-Attained School Board Position

Evelyn Nissirios — Unlikely to Step Down from Illegitimately-Attained School Board Position

Wherever She Goes, Whatever She Does, She Corrupts

This writing on Evelyn Nissirios is by request. Since my article about her saga at the Saddle River School Board, many have reached out to me — just as many of her victims contacted me after I wrote about her abuses in one Family Court case. Destructive individuals have a distinctive pattern. Since they are often deceptive in initial presentation, it is important to call them out when their pattern surfaces and to hold them to account to stop the victimization. They also cling to illegitimately-attained positions — as with Nissirios’ “doubling down” in the face of intense uproar.

Here, I note what I learned from someone in local government. I was told of Nissirios’ backroom deals and manipulations to advantage her child, and the offer of illegal activities under “legal” cover as a selling point. She promotes herself as an “ethical” lawyer, but this is a device, much like her use of Family Court connections to conceal felony crimes. With her on the School Board, the Board unprecedentedly resorted to threats and intimidation; for example, it called the police on a mother, for the first time in its history, in relation to a bus controversy that Nissirios herself largely caused. In another incident, a child being playful with his friend was reported as a bullying incident, and the Board enacted the most severe punishment possible, compromising his future educational prospects. With all but Nissirios’ fingerprints on these actions, it appears that, like a tail wagging the dog, she has been weaponizing the Board to her own ends. There are other characteristic accounts of her backstabbing to harm others and to elevate herself.

I also learned that Nissirios was not elected even for her first term. Residents overlooked the matter because she was new to the district, and they trusted that the other four Board members would keep her in line. During her three-year term, however, the residents became so unhappy, part of Kunal Bhatia’s opposition to her was to get her out! The public was rather kept in the dark when the president of the School Board, Jon Peros, remained silent about the fact that he moved to Florida and enrolled his children in Florida schools three months before the election; people found out only because he did not show up to Board meetings. He resigned his seat with timing that would miss opportunities for a special election, and the thirty-day deadline for the Board to fill his seat would fall on the day after the general election. Incidentally, the election results were not yet in by that date, but Nissirios resigned her position anyway and took the seat, even though, had Bhatia not won, it would have created the absurdity of her having to fill two seats at once! The election finagling, in this manner, was much more extensive and calculated than one might imagine.

Of note, I am not a journalist but a psychiatrist, noting these patterns for what they say about Nissirios’ character. I am a mandated reporter with a duty to notify the public against dangers to its safety and wellbeing, especially to children. The remarkably consistent, accumulated accounts from Saddle River are in line with at least a half-dozen, detailed reports of Nissirios’ unspeakable, stomach-churning acts of cruelty against children in Family Court, all hidden under “court seal.” Why she is so vindictive against innocent children, and apparently against the community she is supposed to serve, remains an enigma, but at the very least, the public has a right to know about the danger she poses.

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