>Dear Trenton Legislators,
Please ignore Mrs. Brogan’s tacky form letter admonishing you for proposing a funding formula that does not deliver more money to Ridgewood.
Since in her mind (she is one of our 5 board members) Ridgewood is the only district in the State that is important, you can understand why she takes this proposed funding formula so personally as a slap in the face to Ridgewood.
Our Board uses money like a dripping faucet. We do not even have textbooks in our elementary schools, but we have lots of consultants to help our hapless administrators administrate.
We’ve recently instituted reform math, the worse possible form of math at great cost and absent any due diligence or input from parents. The board of ed just spent $9,000 on a consultant who left us a report that told us what we knew when she started: THAT MANY PARENTS WANT TRADITIONAL MATH IN THEIR SCHOOLS.
Our Board recently spent an entire year attempting to hire a superintendent. They chose to hire someone who wanted to commute from Long Island (at our expense!), who was a reform math constructivist in the face of intense parental opposition, and someone who had thrice bailed from the hiring process at other school districts.
I am but one parent, but I’ve seen enough of public school administration to determine the extent of wastefullness and single-mindedness that prevails. All one-party systems eventually fall to corruption.
The Ridgewood public school system, as currently run is but a one-party system for which corruption is systemic.
We do not need more money to be wasted in the public school system. I do not want to pay higher state taxes so that a little bit more comes back to Ridgewood.
That’s the game and I don’t want to play anymore.
Thank you for your attention.
Sincerely,
A Ridgewood parent
