Dear Dr. Aderhold, Assistant Superintendent Shanok, Assistant Superintendent Dalton, Assistant Superintendent Smith and Esteemed Members of our Board of Education,
It is with gratitude that I write to you to offer thanks for the tremendous work you have done on behalf of all of our students and families.
You relentlessly work to research, understand, discuss, resolve and institute changes which are meant to improve and move our district forward. You are burdened by state mandates, budgetary confines, limited resources, and so many other factors, yet you tirelessly work to maintain the integrity of our schools.
No need to tell you how thankless your work can be. Coupled with the slings and arrows of people who come forward yelling and screaming, fists high in the air, insisting on negativity, based on partial information, I can only imagine how much more difficult this job has become.
You took on these roles with intention and professional demeanor and somehow have continued to hold on to this. Thank you.
I do not always agree with or like everything that comes through your office, but I have always found that once I learn about all the moving parts, like it or not, things usually make sense. I also understand, as in any successful business, that sometimes unpopular things must occur in order to meet what is demanded by mandate, or to facilitate change. Or, occasionally, too bad for me, but you can’t please everyone- but you can do the best you can to do the right thing. Which you do.
It is a tumultuous time in WW-P. Like the current presidential election situation, there is so much untruth coming from the pundits, so many people spewing total garbage trying to get people crazed, instead of trying to truly have a civil conversation. Hopefully the people who are trying to upend this great district will see that their negativity will only divide and drive/keep away the best of the best. Public schools can not bend and waiver to every man’s wish. Thank goodness there are many places to live in our great country, with fabulous school districts (to which we are endlessly compared). Perhaps some desperately unhappy folks and their kids would do better elsewhere.
I hope you will hold tight, keep talking, maintaining the transparency you have given us so far, and know that there are hundreds of families here who think you are doing a damn good job and appreciate what you do and how you do it.
Theza Friedman and Family
