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A friend suggested that I get the inside dope on what was happening in Ridgewood by perusing the blogs. I was honestly shocked by the narrowmindedness of some of the posts – particularly with regard to the editorial standards of our local newspaper.
Hindsight shows that the reporter was doing his job – reporting – not passing judgment on what was being exchanged, just reporting what was taking place. Isn’t that what he was supposed to do? Remain objective? And didn’t the editor simply back up the editorial integrity of the newspaper by not yielding to public criticism and printing the news as news? Spare me the conspiracy theories, would ya!
Now as for the math controversy. Sure, I knew people were up in arms, and yes, I’ll admit that some of the protocols for teaching left me baffled, but I saw my kids NJASK and Terra Nova test scores and, well…can kids get higher than 99th percentile? Something must be going right in the school system.
No question that all the bloggers love Ridgewood and that discourse is healthy. But, informed and objective discourse is healthier still.
>We’ll just have to leave you out of the dialogue. Your kids seem to function fine doing whatever they’re doing. And that is a good thing. Unfortunately, many children aren’t doing as well. As you very satisfiedly implied, it’s not your problem. It is the rest of the Village that is concerned, so we’ll just keep you out of it. Thanks for your input.
>all i can say that the ridgewood news needs to do bit more on reporting.so many storys are never in the head lines.like what is going on with the village workers.now they are under more pressure.first for being under staff,and now a maybe a layoff in town.and no one is talking a lot about it.I wish they say something very soon.the workers do have bill,s to pay and a kids to feed.so i hope they have a heart.but then it is ridgewood.
>I agree the RW News has been fair, but since so many people who rather not go on the record are forced to, it seemed unfair that “andrew and sue” were afforded that luxury. The paper should print an apology to all the people who had to use their names.
I don’t think the paper meant to be remiss, but they were.
>99th percentile with a calculator
>Okaaaaaay Susan Sherrill … get off PJ’s blog and go back to your flog.
>what a shame.
>yes i get it we are stupid because we are not buying your bull…get rid of your flog and grow up
>it is time to get ch,2.4.5.7.9.and 11.to town.and let them do a story on rw.
>Dear Reader –
With respect to NJASK and TerraNova, you fail to mention what school your 99% student is attending. Would you mind letting us know as this is a significant detail that is missing? How much exposure has your child had to reform math and what program?? My child, with one year of CMP2 in BFs 6th grade, slipped 50 points on the NJASK which is given at the end of the year. TerraNova, which is done earlier in the year was fine. Some of that may be attributable to a boredom (probably CMP2 related), laziness, puberty but I think CMP2 is killing my childs once outstanding math skills. To reiterate, coming out of elementary school (with little exposure to reform math) and entering BF, skills were excellent — after one year of CMP2 we saw a significant decline in standardized test score (290 down to 240).
Thanks.
A concerned parent
>If your kids scored in the 99% tile after 5 years of TERC and a year of CMP, I’ll eat my text book.
Either your kid is gifted and can learn through the air or you sent him to Kumon to supplement.
>this email is a crock pj
>you know we are going to out you johnny midnight
>You say, “But, informed and objective discourse is healthier still.” You’re kidding, right? Those words describe The Ridgewood News? Where have you been hiding? Under a rock? Go slither back under your ROCK, Glen Rock resident and editor of OUR Ridgewood Newspaper.
>Susan Sherrill is the “Sue” of Andrew and Sue? I didn’t think of that but that makes perfect sense. Sherrill is such a stickler on naming sources so I could not figure out why she allowed Andrew and Sue to remain anonymous.
Now that we know Sue’s identity, my question is: Who is Andrew?
>PJ, as soon as I read the letter from Carol Nunn to the newspaper reporter,I knew that Susan Sherrill was the identity of Sue. How did I know?
Well, when Ms. Nunn received an e-mail from them it said from “Susan Roxbury.” I live in Glen Rock and we have a Roxbury Ct. in Glen Rock. Susan obviously took her first name and put the street name with it. Not too smart, Susan Sherrill. Everyone knows that trick.
>Congrats PJ!! You scooped the Ridgewood News about the new postmaster by 15 days! You posted the announcement on July 19 and the newspaper wrote about it on August 3. Way to go bro!
>Hey folks, about that 99th% percentile. It is based on the extremely low standards of the NJ testing system. What is 99th in NJ may be only 60th on the Massachusetts tests, for instance. What is 99th in NJ is only about the 40th percentile on the NEAP (the nation’s report card test).
So Susan, you seem to be right there with Mark Bombace, boasting that reaching a low standard is just ok for Ridgewood. If you are a child in Newark public schools, maybe administrators get to boast. But a child in Ridgewood? Give me a break.
>”A friend suggested that I get the inside dope on what was happening in Ridgewood by perusing the blogs.”
Susan, are you kidding? You’re the editor of the town’s newspaper for goodness sake; you should be the one with the “inside dope.”
What an embarrassing thing to have to admit, but we see evidence of it in your paper every week.
Your editors collect the ad revenue and look the other way.
Here’s a slogan for you:
Only the news we want to print!
>Hey, Susan boasts that reaching a low standard is just ok for Ridgewood because she lives in Glen Rock and her children attend Glen Rock schools. The lower the standards in Ridgewood the better and better Glen Rock schools look. Right, Susan?
>Note to Susan:
When the reporters do their job, you interfere with it, skewing it to your eidtorial predispositions.
10:38 AM
>It must be very frustrating to a reporter to have the integrity of his/her article compromised by an editor with an agenda. Susan Sherrill is definitely an editor with an agenda lacking integrity.
>We deserve an editor whose lips won’t be hermetically sealed to the asses of the VOR or BOE.
>well we all no that the town has some cind of pull on the pres.
>And the SHAME ON YOU AWARD goes to ….(drum roll please)….none other than…. SUSAN SHERRILL, editor of The Ridgewood News!
>I dont know whats worse, Susan Sherrill setting up a flog and having herself interviewed anonymously for the news article on blogs OR that she dragged the reporter into her little scheme. What a loser.
>TO: SUSAN SHERRILL
Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.
>People tell me over and over again that they only read or subscribe to the ridgewood news for the sports. They don’t like the suck up crap that’s always in it. Thanks to this blog, we get the news first and the inside scoop that the council and boe want to keep hidden.
Now, they need more than susan sherrill to help them hide.
Squirm away you little rascals.
>The RN doesn’t need defending. That paper is very brazen about its lack of journalistic standards. In fact, the editor happily flaunts it.
There was a time when this was not a bad paper–green reporters, but still it wasn’t bad.
This editor has managed to finish it off by making it a suck up ass kisser.
Now she is writing to defend it. Oh please.
>nuthin like a little game of Clue in the middle of the night. so, who done it, with what and where?
Susan Sherrill
with her computer
at the Ridgewood News office
>Crawling around in that tangled web of Susan Sherrill’s are the likes of Vicki Bombace and Charles Reilly. I wonder if there are council and boe members also caught up in the black widow’s web?
>7:14 a.m. said, “Now that we know Sue’s identity, my question is: Who is Andrew?”
My best educated guess would be Charles Reilly, former Ridgewood Board of Education President.
>Good mornin’ PJ. If you happen to browse thru the postings on Susan’s flog you’ll see she targeted three Ridgewood residents: James Foytlin (that’s you PJ), Frances Edwards and Carol Nunn. WOW — this Glen Rock resident must really really hate you three to go to all the trouble to set up a blog, use her position as editor of the Ridgewood News to feature an article showcasing her new and improved “Andrew and Sue Blog”, extensively quote the anonymous Sue in that article, and bring an innocent reporter along for the whole sordid ride.
>is the editor of the ridgewood news having some sort of b-r-e-a-k-d-o-w-n?
>The North Jersey Media Group needs to clean house in a big way.
>I think johnny midnight is Susan Sherill.
>i agree with 7:43am and i also think susan sherrill is sue from the other blog. she’s a busy little lady.
>The Ridgewood News is no longer a credible source of information. If the editor started that blog then she needs to lose her job. This is outrageous!@#!
>As long as the north jersey Mmdia group keeps letting the editor get away with this crap then they deserve to lose money with TRN.
>So Susan Sherrill is “sue” and Charles “lunatic fringe” Reilly is “andrew.”
And we have Sherrill quoting “herself” anonymously in her own paper.
What sort of journalism is that?
Are her editors in the dark or are they in on this?
>they’re alwals defending her so they’r in on it.
>Yup u got that right 9:19AM
>Susan Sherril must have Charlie Reilly on a short leash cause he sure isn’t ranting anymore.
>When I moved to Ridgewood almost 20 years ago, I began my subscription to the Ridgewood News which at the time was published twice a week. I always looked forward to reading it. What has happened to this newspaper? Now it only comes out once a week and I’m disappointed in the news coverage. I like to support local business but am seriously considering dropping my subscription.
>Cancelling subscriptions is probably the only way to get the North Jersey Media Group’s attention.
>GIGS UP SUZIE Q
>Your better off getting the news from this blog rather than the ridgewood snewz because it is current and more reliable.
>Who cares about the Ridgewood News anyway. It’s such a has-been rag.
>oookkkkaaayyy 3:36 PM u must be smokin some bad s,.,t cuz u is in the wrong place. move down one. peace bro
>Susan Sherill should come out with a public statement, if she was duped by Andrew and Sue, she should come out after them.
If the BOE refused to give her reporter the price of TERC, she should call them on that also.
It’s time for her to defend her integrity and her paper.
>Nope, not buying the nutty rationale put forth that Susan Sherrill is behind “Andrew and Sue.” Geez, a street in GR is named Roxbury so it’s gotta be her? Oh yeah, that’s a really solid case.
If any of you had done a half decent search, you would have found a real Susan Roxbury with addresses in Regina Botsford’s old hunting grounds in NJ. Could be just a coincidence?