“They Just Want to Tear Things Down”
Another thread of misinformation running from the very top of the BOE throughout the community is the lie that we seek to tear our schools down. So, let’s look at the facts of just the past few weeks: Our most prolific contributors (in writing and helping with research) are coaches, are members of parent organizations that support our schools, and...
John’s Notes on the 10/12/2023 BOE Meeting – “Misinformation” Edition
There’s a lot here to unpack and I am not going to get to it all in one article. The first thing that struck me was Ms. Bradford’s comments about District Administrators talking about parents spreading misinformation about Building Thinking Classroom and Dr. Giordano’s response to my comments that parents made it seem that BTC was being applied to the...
Laura’s Notes from the 09/14/2023 BOE Meeting
The BOE Majority and Attorney are now playing Thought Police Superintendent’s Report As we wrote on the night of the meeting, the Data Presentation did not present on the declines from the prior testing year to this year, and the comparisons are being made to State averages, not comparable schools. And, as John wrote in a prior article, the lack...
The BOE Write-up That’s Almost as Long as the Meeting
A re-cap of the August 10th, 2023 Board of Education Meeting, with Bonus Material that you won’t want to miss. The Superintendent’s Report consisted mainly of a presentation by Mr. Nixon on the results of the NJGPA test. Governor Livingston students did well, with 95% receiving a passing score in ELA and 82% passing the math portion. Results from last...
Pamela Cosplays Board Administrator Kot
-Sai Akiri If you watched the 3/30 BOE meeting, it is understandable if some walked away with that question in their minds. There were multiple questions on the courtesy busing about the number of children, the cost included in the tentative budget, and so on. Julie Kot was unable to answer them. Rather surprising since the tentative budget she presented...
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