>Candidates should ‘engage in an honest discussion’
Friday, March 23, 2012
The Ridgewood News
Candidates should ‘engage in an honest discussion’
To the editor:
Any candidate for the Ridgewood Board of Education must be willing to engage in an honest discussion of the issues. BOE candidate Jim Morgan appears incapable of such willingness.
Mr. Morgan wrote: “Charlie [Reilly’s] reference to 15-to 20 year old initiatives…[is] not [an] example of the kind of fresh thinking we need on today’s BOE.” (The Ridgewood News; March 16; page A8). What is dishonest about Mr. Morgan’s statement is that it was he, not I, who held out as an exemplar of efficiency initiatives a neighboring school district took 15 to 20 years after the Ridgewood BOE took those initiatives. Furthermore, Mr. Morgan failed out of ignorance or for purposes of political posturing to state that the neighboring district took these initiatives 15 to 20 years after Ridgewood did…
Charles V. Reilly
