October 20
...serving up your daily dish.
Yeah, we know it's not the most super-interesting-fun thing of the day, but we thought it would be worthwhile to post about a mandatory survey done by Glen Ridge's school system about the school system itself. You can see the results in PowerPoint-esque form here, and learn everything you wanted to know about what people thought was important in the schools to how they felt about class size.
Again, it's not the most super scientific best-thing-ever, but it works. Check it out.
October 20, 2005 in Seen in Cyberspace | Permalink
Just curious if the community is aware that three children had to be rushed to Mountainside Hospital to have their stomachs pumped after suffering alcohol poisoning at a GRHS dance. Or were you aware a child drank so much at the Forest Ave School last weekend that he passed out on his back and had started puking. A passerby found the boy and called 911. At the hospital doctors found vomit in his lungs; he had literally started drowning in his own puke. Doctors said he was minutes away from death. As it was he spent 3 days on a respirator.
Unfortunately incidents of this kind are common in Glen Ridge. The problem is you'll never hear about it. The Glen Ridge school system, as a matter of policy set out by the administration, does not inform parents when these incidents happen. Their official explanation is they don't want to embarass anybody. The real reason is they have to protect the reputation of the schools. The result is most people think we live in a wonderful tree lined community devoid of any problems at all while in fact we have serious ATOD issues that are deliberately being swept under the carpet by our image conscious administrators.
Posted by: Brian P Fisher | Oct 23, 2005 8:30:38 AM
