Weather: Sunshine this morning. Scattered thunderstorms developing this afternoon. Storms may contain strong gusty winds. High 97F. Winds W at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 60%.
-Heat advisory for Ocean county until 8:00 pm heat index could reach 105
-Lakewood planning board tonight approved a new development on a 5.862 acres lot on Massachusetts Avenue across from High Point, (just north of the Lakewood Fire Tower).
21 duplex structures (42 units) and 2 single family houses on a new loop road. The road pavement will be 32 feet wide.
Each unit will have 4 off-street parking spaces. Some lots will have 2 spaces stacked behind 2 spaces, and some lots will have 3 spaces in front. (LNN)
-FINAL SHIUR ON CHURBAN TONIGHT! 10:30 pm Harav Yechiel Moskowitz will be giving a Shiur tonight at 10:30 on Nach regarding the period preceding the Churban Habayis. Phone # is 701-802-5287 access # 639117
- Dr. Zelenko: "Thank G-d. Going home today"
-Lakewood no new cases 1 death totals 2676/196
-New Jersey 565 new positive cases an additional 24 COVID-19 deaths
-If a school is certified for The Community Eligibility Provision (meal service option for schools and school districts in low-income areas) with over 70% eligibility that makes all students eligible for meal regardless of income and will receivie a P-EBT card in the mail.
-P-EBT cards Make sure to activate the cards right away the correct number is 1-800-997-3333
-NJ adds 5 areas to self-quarantine for 14 days: Illinois, Kentucky, Minnesota,
Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico. the list is now at 36 state: AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NM, NV, OH, OK, PR, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI
-Only 1,000 people will be able to daven at a time at the Kosel this Tishah B’Av Minyanim will be held in groups of 20 people, each person keeping at a distance of 2 meters from those around him. The entire Kosel Plaza allows for 50 such minyanim to be held at a time.
-State police in Lakewood this morning
-Rav Shalom Shechter Yeshivas Ner Moshe will be opening in Lakewood for Elul
-P-EBT cards are still arriving in the mail each kid gets a separate one.
-A growing chorus of parents and educators are putting pressure on New Jersey to delay the reopening of schools this fall, amid continuing concerns about local districts' readiness to stem the coronavirus pandemic. The education advocacy group NJ21 United kicked off a week of demonstrations and lobbying calling for schools to remain closed until authorities can assure it’s safe to return
-Lakewood DMV has met its capacity and will not be servicing any new customers.
-The Lakewood school Board has approved a reopening plan in which students will attend classes five days per week and regular coronavirus tests will be offered upon request to teachers and students and possibly family members.
-Jackson Township's council is scheduled to adopt a resolution to place a question on the ballot in November's general election asking voters to approve increasing the township's annual open space tax to a rate of 3 cents per $100.00 of their property's assessed value. The open space funds are used by the township to purchase, develop, and maintain lands for conservation and recreation purposes, such as farm land and historic sites and facilities. (LNN)
Noticed my p-ebt card coming today! (USPS informed delivery)
ReplyDeleteState police ticketing all along Central Ave. this morning
ReplyDeleteI received 1 p-ebt card for 2 children. Maybe you will get separate cards for children in different schools.
ReplyDeleteI have said many times that the BOE is a nonentity. This was a mistake. If true, a visionary and innovative leader would have filled the void in governance to create an engine of growth and prosperity, and an infrastructure of opportunity for Lakewood and its posterity. To the extent that the Lakewood BOE is an entity at all, it is a bulwark of obstruction and incompetence that undermines the public interest without even realizing the damage to the children of Lakewood, public school teachers, overburdened taxpayers and Lakewood residents in general.
ReplyDeleteI write today, perhaps selfishly, as a teacher. I understand that I will have few sympathizers.
Teachers lives are expendable. That is the message of their reopening plan at full capacity. Our buildings are far above state recommended capacity for safe schools during normal times and now the BOE wants to fill their overcrowded buildings putting every teacher above 50 years old at risk. Moreover, I do not believe that it will successfully implement the safety measures on paper even after spending more of my tax dollars. The BOE is notorious for failing in its supervisory capacity.
It is not easy just to quit. Teaching is the last holdout of a bygone era in which a professional stakes his career with a single employer.
(Yet the BOE also wants to hold onto a bygone era after spending a fortune to supply students with computers last Spring. We should be embracing the future and preparing our public schools students for the new economy. Who knows what it will be like? It almost certainly will be a combination of remote interactions. Professionals and businesses will likely rely less upon gathering people to a central location. I see this in the courts reducing both transaction costs and litigation costs. The American people have an exceptional capacity to adapt, to excel and to lead the world even after the partisan chaos that brings us to that point. America will come out of this siege and national crisis stronger and leaner than ever before.)
Now that the record is closed in my case, the DOE can do whatever it wants. I have no idea if Lakewood will get the $62 million this year. And will Lakewood get all that money when other districts and the state will have unprecedented shortfalls? Teachers might be risking their lives just to get fired in the middle of the year. The BOE could save money by simply having an alternating AB schedule.
BTW What will happen if the legislature removes the cap on property tax increases? The $140 million of loans is about a full year of property taxes. Remember, we all owe that money. Thank you BOE!
I guess my legacy will not be the devotee of education because I am not willing to return to packed building and packed classroom.
In my opinion, and this is speculation, other than the diversion of attention from what will be packed LSTA buses ("After all, the public schools are packing their classrooms and their buses. . ."), there is no legitimate reason that the public schools cannot instruct at half capacity like Brick and Toms River on an AB schedule. But now the BOE says it cares about what public school parents want. How convenient?
Where was the BOE when I was demoted? Where was it when I had little or no cooperation, nay, active obstruction during discovery? Where were they for two decades when the olam wanted them to take action on the funding formula?
They waited for me to defeat two motions to dismiss. After thousands of hours of work I had to defend against them trying to snatch it away. Their four motions to become a party were defeated, B"H.
Where were they I suggested providing for the olam free single-gender vocational and professional courses in the old industrial arts wing of the high school (a year before they closed down the classrooms)? Where were they when I came up with a plan to lower tuition using Option Two of the Administrative Code to provide free English?
I apologize for seeming to make machlokus, but I am not doing that because no one will care to do anything.
When is the judge ruling on the funding formula suit
DeleteAt least you admitted that you are writing selfishly.
DeleteWhy do you think you are any less safe than any other workplace employee? I haven't heard the grocery store cashiers & packers begging to stay home! Maybe it has something to do with the fact that you are a public employee and will get full pay for "teaching" 4 kids in your pajamas?
As an aside, many daycares were considered essential during the pandemic and reopened soon after everything closed down. There were none that had to re-close due to infection. So your workplace may be one of the safest out there.
The Office of Administrative Law is in the executive branch and thereby subject to the jurisdiction of the governor's executive orders rather than the Supreme Court's administrative powers over the Superior Court. The judge has until three months after the end of the public health emergency.
DeleteI was advocating an AB schedule like all the other districts. We would teach the A cohort in person from 7:00 am until the contractual end of the day at 1:40. I would not wear my pajamas then but might wear them when I do the unpaid B cohort remotely from home.
DeleteMost professionals and blue collar workers that you speak of can distance themselves from others. It is hard to distance from students in the middle school. At any rate, I do not care what others do, I am not convinced.
I served two decades, spent 12 years getting certification as a supervisor, principal, superintendent and attorney at law to serve the people of Lakewood yet rather than move up, I am in the same position as a 25 year old. Where I come from, you produce, you put in you time and you move up. My father moved to the top of Shell Oil. My brother moved to the top of the Texas Teachers Pension Fund, the largest fund in the nation. The problem is that the people of Lakewood do not want results or solutions, they want juvenile antics and Marx Brothers type entertainment. After all, if the ceaseless off-topic babble at BOE meetings is tortuous enough, who is going to pay attention to what the BOE resolves to do?
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DeleteLSTA still not giving refund to parents for the $150 fee or the Sunday busing.
ReplyDeleteWhere is the money where is the accountability
Why is Agudah not fighting this money grab they made alot of noise for security money
Why is the vaad silent
The Aguda like most other organizations only protect and fight for the askanim. No longer concerned with the yochid. They will help developers get approvals in Jackson at the expense of the Klal.
DeleteShould I be gettomg a P-EBT card for my children enrolled in a daycare that has a gov lunch program?
ReplyDeleteWhy is the media not saying about all the parents who want there schools to open 5 days? In Middletown they asked all the parents what they want for next year almost 90% said open like always the bard said to bad. Now the parents are fighting the bard. There are other towns were most of the parents want the schools to open but the town is not listening why do we not hear about them?
ReplyDeleteI thought you heard about them. I do not understand your question about we not hearing about them. Anyway, what is the media? Do you mean the press? Is this forum not part of the press? The press is as diverse as the American people. If you do not hear some particular news story from one source look somewhere else. There is no conspiracy, The Fourth Estate might be able to start a discussion among the American people but it has never been able to control what people think, despite what some say about the Hearst, Pulitzer and the Yellow Press leading to the Spanish American War in 1898.
ReplyDeleteI can't find anything about Middletown. I would be surprised at numbers at 90% but I must selfishly say, it is not the kids most at risk. True, I should just quit. Maybe many older and at-risk teachers will quit if there won't be social distancing (How will they replace us during this time? Not my concern.) It won't be the first time, but the hundredth time, I have seen teachers have leave the district in a huff after decades of service feeling betrayed by the BOE.
ReplyDeleteAaron Be Blessed a 1000 Fold
ReplyDeleteBaruch Te'yeh. Thank you.
DeleteEvery store camp yeshiva shul is open but the township building is closed. Obviously a smart way of keeping the public away hence all the major applications brought to the boards for approval.
ReplyDeleteAaron Lang...
ReplyDeleteVery simple piece of advice for you:
Travel to another state every other Sunday. (Save receipts to prove) Then, when you come back, you will be under 14 day quarantine per the Governor's order, and you won't be able to show up to work. You will then be eligible for Pandemic Unemployment Insurance.
(It looks like, based on the current Republican bill pending, you will be eligible for $713+$200 per week at least through October, and then $713+$500 for a maximum of 70% of your salary through December.)
Keep in mind that Unemployment is not taxed by NJ, only the IRS.
Mr. Lang I appreciate your years of service as well as your concerns, but I must disagree. Schooling is THE most important element of society. And learning remotely is not schooling; it's a nice idea but as we saw in the spring it produced nothing. Any teacher who feals at risk should resign, or maybe work out a deal to take a sabbatical. The schools will hire others. They will not be the best teachers, but better a not-so-good teacher in the classrom than a good one remotely.
ReplyDeleteNow with Jackson, ALL three surrounding K-12 districts are going on the AB plan that I am advocating. Lakewood is going to stick out like a sore thumb, possibly one of the few in NJ.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.app.com/story/news/education/in-our-schools/2020/07/28/jackson-nj-schools-covid-19-coronavirus-reopening/5529742002/?for-guid=06b8b14e-4ca1-4f2a-96c1-16aab4baf5e0&utm_source=app-Daily%20Briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_briefing&utm_term=hero