Busing an entire neighborhood past their once-elementary school (Glen) is stupid and expensive. Has anyone asked the Salem Ridge residents how they feel?
Was the board of ed so short of sight about the supposed student population explosion that it underbuilt in the last 3 bonds? Now they discover that they need 22 more? How many will they ask us for 4 years from now?
(Dirty little secret alert: to gain more school funding, classification of students who are not special ed AS special ed has skyrocketed. The NJ dept of ed is cracking down on districts above 10%)
In Ridgewood, we fight cellphone antennas, so all of a sudden, 160 COAH units are just going to POP in with no litigation? The VOR drove out a farmer whose family has been here for over 300 years because he cut down some trees and have a gentleman's farm. These are the same people who bemoan the disappearance of Van Ripers and Tice farms. Hypocrites!
Ridgewood is already overbuilt and the easiest way to thwart any more mandated building is to sue the state. With all of the mandates contradicting each other (DEP, COAH, etc) they will be fighting each other for years.
The lack of leadership and imagination at the board is staggering.
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Bravo, Indeed!!!!
We suffer from a complete lack of rational management and desparately need a change.
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