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“This election just goes to say that this blog does not run this town and math is not the only issue. Nice try….not “
“How could you not be angry? This board has misspent our tax dollars on consultants that told us what we knew anyway, search fees for a firm that didn’t do its homework, on curriculum materials that have been deemed insufficient by national experts, etc. When Sarah Kate and others asked politely and through proper channels for answers they were ignored or dismissed.
What has amazed me in all of this was how some viewed the Maskin and Lois platform as radical or in some way not in all of our best interests. In voting against them, were you opposed to higher academic standards, fiscal accountability, standardized curriculum, increased parental involvement, and more transparent communication?
I never thought I would be making comparisons to “High School Musical”, but I found myself humming the song, “Stick to the Status Quo” this morning (Sing with me!)
Stick to the stuff you know
If you wanna be cool
Follow one simple rule
Don’t mess with the flow, no no
Stick to the status quo
Hopefully, we and our children won’t end up like the kids at East high – pretty and shiny on the outside, but a whole lot of nothing going on underneath. “
“This town is a joke.
Town services are cut,-idiots on the BOE get re-elected.
Everyone gripes on this blog but are no shows at the polls
Our house is on the market already.
We’re moving to Fardale in Mahwah,
5 miles from Ridgewood. Nice homes and churches.
Schools are good, taxes are less and they’re not arresting kids for carring weapons. Real grass on the playing fields.
FYI the school budget passed at $48,000,000.”
” “the Travell crowd”…
I live in the Travell school district. I was disappointed in the results of the election. Then to read this kind of language…I really don’t know what to say.
It really hurts to think that this is what some of your neighbors think of you. “
“I am sick to my stomach. While Sheila has been on the board our curriculum is going to pot, our buildings are falling apart and meanwhile they use our tax dollars to partner with a university to get information we already have at hand. I am disgusted. When Sheila attended the Travell HSA meeting she still feigned surprise that there were issues with the math! Somehow she got all of her old friends to vote for her even though they really no longer have any vested interest in our children’s education. It is time to move. For Sheila, this is just a vanity project. How long can she stay on the BOE? “
“If it wasn’t so clear that they had an agenda, and if it wasn’t so clear that they were angry, angry, angry, they would have won. However, every non angry parent in the town – which is obviously the majority – voted against them as much as they voted for them. I can’t tell you how many people said, “I’m not voting for those kooks.” THAT was their major problem. In a district where there are definitely some issues that need to be addressed, they catered to the Travell crowd and took it too far. To most people in town, they were way too militant – and they were associated with this blog (“Are they the blog people? I’m not voting for THEM!”).
It is all in the packaging. “
“Sarah-Kate and Greg ran a very good campaign and put up a good fight. The mortal mistake was to be silent about the nasty attacks on this blog and to have a link to it on their website.
Voters are not stupid- they can see. Yesterday they saw and spoke loudly.(Here is where all the attacks referring to this post will happen…)
Now, let’s reconcile for the sake of this town, otherwise you, all of you will become irrelevant.”
“This is a lesson. The “math” issue has no import to the people of Ridgewood. The un-equal education (depending on where you live in town) does not matter to the people of Ridgewood. The lack of books is OK, too.
The people have spoken. The fight is over. “
“Laurie Goodman was the best candidate running and the voters agreed. “
“well PJ like I have been saying with the internet who needs public education?”
“so what do you think PJ Ridgewood without schools ? Interesting future for the town dont you think ..I see a clifton like school system in your future ,as all the serious parents who need to live hear send there kids to private schools ,nope not the same old Ridgewood at all kinda sad … “
“First one to find a tutor wins.
get cracking Travell parents – you will need tutors for grades 1 through 12.
ka-ching “
