I don't know whether this is the right or wrong thing to do - honestly it sounds like a knee-jerk reaction to the learning centers proposal having stalled. But what's amazing to me in reading the articles on the school board's recent activity is how clear it is that absolutely nothing will change. I've seen the school board squabbles for nearly ten years. The same people (including this guy they just brought back to the amazement of many), back year after year, making the same decisions to protect the status quo. I know that's a generalization, but it rings pretty true overall. Everyone agrees it's broken, but nobody wants to fix it. As if the school performance is going to get better by tweaking things and changing up a few people from time to time.
It's really time to close the district and get absorbed into other ones. There's no saving this one. To date the school system hasn't hurt progress that much. Asbury will hit a point in it's progress where the schools will become a major drag on our ability to attract people and reinvigorate our city. A few years ago the school system was one of the major factors in our decision not to move full time into our home in AP when we moved back to NJ. Instead we bought a primary residence elsewhere despite loving Asbury Park and spending much of our time here. The waterfront is an issue that people get passionate about, and I am too. We can all argue the merits of this and that until we turn blue. But perhaps it's time to start focusing on other areas more likely to limit progress, like the schools. It's not as fun as debating historical restoration vs. modernization - but if we're going to become the city we wish to be this is a much more important issue to address. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, asburysteve@... wrote: > > _School board considers closing Asbury Park school_ > (http://www.news12.com/articleDetail.jsp?articleId=275190&position=1&news_type=news) > > > Steve Herman, Asbury Tower, 1701 Ocean Ave > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: asburypark-dig...@yahoogroups.com asburypark-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: asburypark-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
