>VOTE NO : What I did say, was that too much money is being spent on administrators and frivolous things like fancy fields with lights.
I was not intimating that Ridgewood should not move forward. In fact there is nothing in what I wrote that suggests that. What I did say, was that too much money is being spent on administrators and frivolous things like fancy fields with lights.
My reference to ADHD meds was only made to show that there were disruptive kids in our large classes with no aides, and teachers TAUGHT.
There is no reason why (in 2011) teachers can’t teach classes of 25-30 students. Whatever decade it is is not relevant.
What are so different about “today’s realities”? The reality that sports have become more important than academics? The reality that the education is NOT as good as it was “back in the day”?
The SAT test was more difficult then, it has been dumbed-down twice since I graduated, yet we still managed to score in the 600-700 range, WITHOUT tutors. The current math program (and the ones that have been used for the past what, 8-10 years?),is terrible. But the decision maker is collecting an enormous salary for her ineptitude and our children are not learning math well enough to succeed without being tutored. That’s ridiculous. And costly.
I also have nothing against “newbies”, after all, I only moved back here 20 years ago so that my own children could get as good an education as I did. (not really sure that they did)
