I believe Carol Herts and Deborah Marinsky are fully qualified to become members of WW-P Board of Education.
Our schools have gone through many changes in the last several years. We don’t have valedictorian and salutatorians any more. Mid-term and final exams are gone. 4th and 5th grade A&E classes are cancelled. Our ESL program has only skeletons left. Standards for music education are lowered. Homework is restricted. Good teachers are leaving in droves. “Dumbing down” seems to be the main theme characterizing the changes our schools are going through now.
Many of these changes took place without adequate communication with teachers, parents and students. I, together with many other parents in our district, are alarmed by these changes and for the sake of our children’s future, fighting against these changes. In many of our battles, we saw Carol Herts and Deborah Marinsky fighting with us. They wrote letters to local newspapers with us. They raised concerns at BOE meetings with us. They interviewed teachers with us. They surveyed and collected parents’ opinions with us. They are one of us and true representatives of us parents.
Carol Herts and Deborah Marinsky are also against irresponsible expenditure by the schools. They support spending money on students and teachers, instead of redundant school administrators and luxurious offices. They support returning excess capital to taxpayers, and thus lowering our tax rate. In this sense, they are true representatives of us taxpayers.
Helen Ming
West Windsor
