Sheila Brogan horrified the assembled multitude that night at BF and sure enough, her comments have returned to haunt us many times over. They were quickly turned into PowerPoint slides by Valley’s attorneys. Our elected BOE hires the Superintendent of Schools, not the reverse, and should have stood firm, acting as a staunch defender of students’ and teachers’ health, safety, and ability to learn and teach in peace and health. That defection was one of the harshest blows in this nearly decade-long fight to prevent Ridgewood from becoming Valleywood. Ms. Brogan’s failure to support the children and teachers was a terrible and unexpected blow. She has a great deal to answer for and should stop running for reelection to the BOE.
ANY psychologist would never (unless paid by Valley) have backed up her testimony, and they know it. And she was elected to look out for the children in this district ? It was a pathetic statement then, and it still is.
Brogan is ridiculous. She talks about previous construction in the schools while construction took place. What is being proposed here is a minimum of 6 years of noise, construction, traffic, dust, etc. That’s a world of difference from any project previously undertaken in the schools. And even if it was, to whom did she speak, in order to come to the conclusions she posted. She’s unqualified.
When did she become a construction or engineering expert? She’s a publicity hound who just loves to get her name or photo in the papers – well she accomplished her goal big time with her absurd comments. Since she has no kids in the schools, how objective do you think her comments are? She and her pal Sonnenfeld are a real pair. Sonnenfeld tells her what the party line is, and Brogans spits it out
I think you are giving way too much credit to the effect that ridiculous speech Mrs. Brogan gave on the members of the PB, or anyone else that has seen it. Any sane adult easily came to the conclusion that she was either getting something from Valley, getting even with somebody, or whatever. The only thing the tape of that “opinion” should be used for is to show how low Valley is willing to go for any type of support from residents of this community. It really was an insult to the intelligence of any parent of a Ridgewood student. Quite frankly, I don’t know why anyone has not called for an apology.
Did Sheila Brogan volunteer her opinion; or was she asked to testify about the construction at Willard and elsewhere under oath?
Did she first ask teachers at the school their opinion before she spoke or testified?
When you make a statement that kid’s(students) should not be effected by noise coming from a construction site right next to a school you have to wonder why any rational human being would take her comments seriously. They insulted the intelligence of every person sitting in BF that night.
If people do not want this woman then why is she constantly reelected, maybe the person that wrote the above article will run against her.
1:00 pm, “the above article” is an amalgam of comments posted by several different people. (I know because I wrote a little bit of it.) Mr. Foytlin does that a lot.
She is not winning without an election next time for sure.
Follow the money….
Brogans comments are an embarrassment to the entire village
I don’t know who’s worse Brogan or Sonnenfeld. They both make ridiculous comments. One is an elected buffoon and the other is an appointed buffoon. Wake up Village, we have the power to change this.
… Walsh is change?