Ridgewood Superintendent Dr. Fishbein Resigned on his own Accord

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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Superintendent Dr. Fishbein resigned on his own accord .

Reader sums it up best, “He resigned on his own accord, he wasn’t pushed or asked to resign. Only he knows the reason for his resignation. If it was because of a new Board’s treating him poorly, then his next employer needs to check to see if he has a pair of big boy pants in his wardrobe, because his Bd. meetings were really light-weight duty, comparatively to other similar Bd meetings in other districts. If he really (key word “really”) wanted to stay in his position, he would’ve worked just a bit harder and been a bit more politically savvy and he should’ve won over the Bd. No one on the Bd. was hostile or rogue, they were however matter-a-fact, and apparently he did not like t it and decided to leave. That’s a personal decision, and more power to him. Now for the public to make all sorts of conjectures on the reason for his leaving, that’s plain dumb. Just wish him well, people move on and change jobs all the time. It was obviously his time, on his own time-line to leave and find something else. To blame the Bd. is again, dumb. The Bd. now needs to be matter-a-fact in searching and hiring an interim and a permanent replacement. The public’s ability to swallow Dr. Fishbein’s decision, note it was his decision, and get on with the business of working with an interim right-away will go along way to keeping things running smoothly, as much as possible.”