Posters in the Star-Ledger Community Forum are puzzling over the Plainfield schools superintendent. One poster says he looked all over the newspapers and saw nothing about a new superintendent. For some reason, my old login doesn't work or I don't remember how to make it work in order to comment there, so I will just say the deed took place at the June 28 special meeting - way at the end, according to the agenda - and it never made the news.
Guess what, folks, the days of reporters waiting hours at lengthy meetings for news are over.
Click here to read about a community meeting to meet the finalists. Kind of obscure, no? There were two, and the ultimate winner on June 28 was Anna Belin-Pyles.
I gave up trying to cover those meetings myself. In the old days, the name of the winning candidate, a bio, the salary and contract details and a statement from the winner would be part of a news story. There was a poignant aspect this time, as the new permanent superintendent had recently lost her mother. But it is a new era for newsgathering, so don't necessarily depend on the newspapers for all the news.
Maybe there will be some notice of the district having a permanent superintendent if papers still do roundups on the upcoming school year. But the troops are spread very thin nowadays.
Speaking of stuff I don't feel like doing, I am skipping the mayor's forum tonight. It would cost me taxi money to get there and back and the taxi companies do not obey the rate charts, so I would have to pay 45 percent more than I should. So never mind.
Just checked my messages and I had an offer of a ride, which I missed due to being in the shower. Thanks anyway!
--Bernice
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add another quality of life issue to the list of what other cities get right with ease....
ReplyDeleteRob - how is local news reporting a quality of life issue? How is the hiring of a new school superintendent even a quality of life issue?
ReplyDeletewow..Anonymous.. Not exactly an Ivy Leaguer are ya ???
ReplyDeleteLike a poor marksman not hitting the target.
Sigh... I'll explain.
Things such as taxi services NOT following posted CITY APPROVED fees and rate schedules would be something that the CITY must check up on, enforce and deal with.
I know it's hard to believe..that John Q. Public ISN'T in charge of that. I mean... Bernice's lives here..it's her frickin job to enforce posted city approved taxi rates.
I'd also like to personally chide Bernice for not being more active in zoning and code enforcement. She certainly is a lazy bird...
so... to review: TAXI Service RIPPING OFF THE PUBLIC -- QUALITY OF LIFE ISSUE.
Local news blogging NOT a quality of life issue.
Hiring of a new school superintendent NOT a quality of life issue.
Ms Paglia I am here to tell you ANNA BELIN-PYLES was not whom the MAJORITY of the stake holders sitting in the forum choose. To be perfectly honest just about everyone in the superintendent FORUM thought she did a horrible job. The BOE member's already had their lawyer's to draw up her contract before the forum. She is a disgrace to the district and the same go to the board member's sitting there now.
ReplyDeleteRenee
Rob keep up the good work
ReplyDeleteThe end point is that Plainfield's kid get taken to the cleaners and Plainfiel schools do not improve. It seems that no matter who we put on the BOE, they don't think of our kids first. Too bad for all of us in Plainfield.
ReplyDeleteBob you are correct.
ReplyDeleteRenee
Renee, I think you are missing the point. The BOE has NOTHING to do with education. It has everything to do with politics and awarding contracts. The Campbells, who make sure they have a presence on the BOE did not send their children to the Plainfield High School, which should tell you where the focus is of the people who are on the board.
ReplyDeleteSo I hope you understand now. And you, silly, thought that the BOE is about education, better school system, and giving children a chance in life. We are proudly in the bottom 5 of school systems in NJ - and you thought it was about education.