Maybe it’s time to look at the Oceanport Board of Education.
Is anyone interested in seeing if there are any stories behind their filing a petition with the state Commissioner of Education? That is the petition to try and thwart the six elected boards in three towns who want to provide a great education at a more logical financing manner. But these three towns want to ask the people in the towns whether it’s what they want.
And right there it seems like that’s the main difference between the three towns collectively..Sea Bright, Highlands, and Atlantic Highlands, and the Oceanport mayor and council and Board of Education.
The three towns want permission to let the people they represent have the final word on where education for their children is taught and how they’ll foot the bill for it.
Haven’t heard a thing from the Oceanport Mayor and Council, perhaps because education is the school board’s business. But don’t the rest of the elected officials care what happens in the education of their kids?
Don’t they ever see any need to ask questions or get information when it involves their towns’ people?
Maybe that’s the way things are done there. Because even the Board of Education hasn’t asked any questions, apparently hasn’t tried to talk to anyone in the other three towns, even so much as to pick up the phone and ask what’s going on or can you give us some information.
But they haven’t… Until recently.
No, Oceanport did not reach out to any of those towns, or their boards of education recently. Instead, they took the step to ignore any communication, compromise or understanding. Instead of communicating with neighbors, they went right to the state complaining about something they haven’t even talked to their neighbors about.
In short, Oceanport Board of Education spent money, apparently had an executive session and at least by majority decision, decided the smartest thing they should do is tell the Commissioner they have a pretty strong objection to letting the people in their neighboring towns exercise their rights to have a vote in their towns to hear what the people of their towns want.
Whew!
The Oceanport Board of Education seems more interested in taking away the right of others to vote than it has in what is best for both the student and the taxpayer. Ironically, that action is costing their own taxpayers money since they used their attorney to file the petition with the Commissioner.
It was enough to make me want to look deeper into some of the meetings, e-mails, actions, lack of actions and activities in the past few years to see whether this is Oceanport’s normal Plan of Action when something comes up that the board members don’t like.
And some of the things I found are amazing! There will be more information to come and more reasons to wonder how the Oceanport Board of Education conducts business.
