Why do Ridgewood Public Schools choose to keep schools open and in session for students while schools are used as polling places on Election Day and open to the general public? In today’s day and age, where incidents of mass violence have become commonplace, we allow the general public to enter our schools unchecked with little security beyond HSA volunteers. I ask the Ridgewood Board of Ed to either change the polling places to non-school locations, or make Election Day a school holiday as many other districts do.