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Please rise for a salute to the flag and a moment of silence. >> I pledge allegiance >> to the flag of the United States of America. >> And to the >> republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Do I have a motion to reconvene?

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>> So motion. >> Motion by Mr. Trebasser, second by Mr. Della Pietro. All in favor? [clears throat] >> Aye. >> Any opposed? Carried. Roll call, Mr. Secretary. >> Ms. Anderson. >> Here. >> Mr. Coughlin. >> Here. >> Mr. Della Pietro. >> Here. >> Mr. Mohammad. >> Here. >> Ms. Perez.

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>> Here. >> Mr. Trebasser. >> Here. >> Ms. Bourdain. >> Here. Will someone make a motion to approve the minutes of the previous meeting? >> So motion. >> Second. >> So Motion by Mr. Della Pietro, second by Mr. Trebasser. All in favor? >> Aye. >> Any opposed?

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Carried. Mr. Secretary, please state for the record the notice of bids received by the board. >> Thank you, Madam President. On June 3rd, 2026, we received RFP 2702 for elementary language arts arts coaching and consulting services, also RFP 2703

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for aftercare program services, also RFP 2704 for math MTSS intervention instructional coaching and professional development, and also RFP 2705 comprehensive cloud-based educational software platform and related

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professional services. On June 5th, 2026, we received RFP 27-06 athletic streaming services. >> Thank you, Mr. Secretary. Dr. Massimino, please state for the record the superintendent report for the month of May 2026. >> Thank you, Madam President. I present

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the board the following reports for the month of May 2026, the student registers and fire drill reports, suspension reports for elementary and secondary schools, bomb threat reports, and reports of the attendance officers. >> Thank you, Dr. Massimino. The Woodbridge Township Board of Education welcomes and encourages active, productive, and respectful

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participation by members of the public and seeks to protect the First Amendment rights of those who engage in the exercise of free speech at this Board of Education meeting. Members of the public are requested to express themselves in a civil manner with due respect for the dignity and privacy of those whose legal rights may be impacted. The public is

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now invited to speak regarding the agenda items being presented this evening. When you come to the microphone, please state provide your name and the section of township in which you reside along with the specific agenda item number you wish to discuss. As per regulation 1108, comments must be limited to no more than 5 minutes. No

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response will be given until you have completed your opportunity to speak. Anybody for the agenda? Nope. Moving on. Superintendent's agenda. Dr. Massimino, do you have any recommendations? >> Yes, Madam President. I have 14 items to

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present to the board this evening. >> I make a motion for the Superintendent's agenda. >> Second. >> Motion by Mr. Treebasser, seconded by Mr. Della Pietro. Are there any comments or questions from the board? Roll call, Mr. Secretary. >> Ms. Anderson. >> Yes. >> Mr. Coughlin.

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>> Yes. >> Mr. Della Pietro. >> Yes. >> Mr. Mohammad. >> Yes. >> Ms. Perez. >> Yes. >> Mr. Treebasser. >> Yes. >> Ms. Bordan. >> Yes. Communication policy and planning, Mr. Coughlin. >> Thank you, Madam President. The Communication and Planning Communication Policy and Planning Committee on recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools presents the

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following four recommendations. I move for the adoption of the foregoing. >> I have a motion by Mr. Coughlin. Do I have a second? Seconded by Ms. Anderson. Are there any comments or questions from the board? Roll call, Mr. Wolferman. >> Ms. Anderson. >> Yes. >> Mr. Coughlin. >> Yes. >> Mr. Della Pietro. >> Yes.

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>> Mr. Mohammad. >> Yes. >> Ms. Perez. >> Yes. >> Mr. Treebasser. >> Yes. >> Ms. Bordan. >> Yes. Curriculum, extracurricular activities, and technology, Mr. Treebasser. >> Thank you, Madam President. The Curriculum and Extracurricular Activities and Technology Committee on recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools and the Assistant Superintendent

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for Curriculum and Instruction presents the following 29 items. I move for the adoption of the foregoing. >> Motion by Mr. Treebasser. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Seconded by Mr. Della Pietro. Any comments or questions from the board? Roll call, Mr. Wolferman. >> Ms. Anderson. >> Yes. >> Mr. Coughlin. >> Yes. >> Mr. Della Pietra.

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>> Yes. >> Mr. Muhammad. >> Yes. >> Ms. Perez. >> Yes. >> Mr. Treebicksser. >> Yes. >> Ms. Boarde. >> Yes. Finance and Insurance. Mr. Treebicksser. >> Thank you, Madam President. Uh the Finance and Insurance Committee on recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools and the Business Administrator Board Secretary presents the following

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77 items. I move for the adoption of the foregoing. >> I have a motion by Mr. Treebicksser. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Second by Ms. Anderson. Any comments or questions from the board? >> I do have one thing, Madam President. Uh for the public, if you notice that the administration made a very uh smart decision and they took all

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financial matters and moved them over to the Finance and Insurance. So, if there's anything that relates to dollars and cents, you can find it in one spot easily so you don't have to research the entire agendas anymore. >> Thank you for pointing that out, Mr. Treebicksser. >> Thank you. >> Roll call, Mr. Wolferman.

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>> Ms. Anderson. >> Yes. >> Mr. Coughlin. >> Uh I'm abstaining on item number 11. Yes on all other items. >> Mr. Della Pietra. >> Yes. >> Mr. Muhammad. >> Uh Madam President, I abstain on item number 73 in the name of Rutgers University and yes on all the other

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items. >> Ms. Perez. >> I will also be abstaining on item number 73 in the name of Rutgers University. Yes to all other items. >> Mr. Treebicksser. >> Abstain on item 11. Yes on all other items. >> And Ms. Boarde. >> It's a yes on everything for me.

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>> Dining and Transportation agenda, Mr. Muhammad. >> Madam President, the Dining and Transportation Committee on the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools and Business Administrator Board Secretary presents the following

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49 items. I move for the adoption of the foregoing. >> I have a motion by Mr. Muhammad. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Second by Ms. Perez. Any comments or questions from the board? Roll call, Mr. Wolferman. >> Ms. Anderson. >> Yes. >> Mr. Coughlin. >> Yes. >> Mr. Della Pietra. >> Yes.

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>> Mr. Mohamed. >> Yes. >> Ms. Perez. >> Yes. >> Mr. Treewasser. >> Yes. >> Ms. Gordon. >> Yes. >> Personnel agenda, Mr. Della Pietro. >> Thank you, Madam President. The Personnel Committee, on recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools and the Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources,

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presents the following 40 items and move for the adoption of the foregoing. >> I have a motion by Mr. >> Second. >> Pietro and second by Mr. Treewasser. Any comments or questions from the board? Seeing none, Mr. Silverman, roll call. >> Ms. Anderson. >> Yes.

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>> Mr. Coughlin. >> Yes. >> Mr. Della Pietro. >> Yes. >> Mr. Mohamed. >> Yes. >> Ms. Perez. >> Yes. >> Mr. Treewasser. >> Yes. >> Ms. Gordon. >> Yes. Mr. Bush, do you have any recommendations? >> I don't at this time, Madam President. >> Thank you. Is there any old business that should be brought to the attention

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of the board? Any new business that should be brought to the attention of the board? Uh before we move on, I just want to say graduation occurs in uh just a couple of days and I want to congratulate all of our seniors from all of our high schools um on their graduation.

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Uh I take it personally this year as I do have somebody graduating. Uh and I want to thank everyone for a a very successful school year uh show- uh proven by the uh the report that you were given earlier today. Um I just want to say congratulations to

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everybody who made it through another year. >> Madam President, I also like to just real quickly uh this it's Ms. Oberberger's birthday today. She's going to be really mad at me after this meeting, but I do want to wish her a happy birthday on the record and I hope she has a wonderful weekend. >> Happy birthday! Yay!

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>> Are we supposed to stand up and sing now? >> We can wait till [applause] after that. Stacey, yes yes, ma'am. >> [laughter] >> Well, happy birthday. We've we've given you a day off tomorrow. Bye-bye. Um we will now open the meeting for public

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comment. If you wish to say something, please come to the the and provide your name and the section of the township in which you reside for the record. Again, members of the public are requested to express themselves in a civil manner with due respect for the dignity and privacy for those whose legal rights may be affected. Please limit your comments to no more than 5 minutes in accordance

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with regulation 1100D. No response will be given until you have fully completed all of your comments as to not interrupt your 5-minute opportunity to speak. >> Good evening. Paul Land Hope Land. Um I was going to be prepared to be, you

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know, a little bit of a a critic today, but I have to acknowledge, you know, going from 76% below benchmark at K to 2 level uh to 31% is remarkable. I mean, we got to be able to applaud that and be happy that we're moving in the right direction.

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I spoke to the teacher on the way out. I asked her, "Have we finally gotten back to the fundamentals when it comes to literacy?" And that's phonics. Because for many decades, we kind of moved away to something experimental called whole language learning. And I won't ask by a show of hands who's

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familiar with the difference because you all are in the game and and you're probably well aware of the difference. What I would like to be critical of is how long it took to get back to the fundamentals. My problem with the government school monopoly

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and centralized planning and the loss of home rule is that you become an experiment that has to be implemented and imposed across the entire system. And as a result, we've suffered. Our standings in the world have gone down to 40 among [clears throat] developed

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nations. And that's assuming we're not cheating in our statistics. That is tragic. So, while I have to applaud the little successes along the way, that's just a small, you know, a small win among a major loss over long period of time.

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Uh I am concerned about having a lack of school choice, especially when we have $409 million budget for this coming school year, and we're still below or underwater when it comes to proficiency.

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As a whole at fourth grade level, we're at 40% reading proficiency. And when I say upside down, I mean that means 60% of our kids at that level are not reading proficiently, however they define it now, cuz I'm sure the standards have slipped. You've all heard

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the word dumbing down the curriculum. That's not just a made-up thing as an excuse to complain about stuff. There's a genuine dumbing down of curriculum. If you ever seen the primers 150 years ago, 250 years ago, what kids were expected to read then, the classics.

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Now, I don't think they're being exposed to the classics as they should be. So, I want to ask a couple simple questions. Um what decisions affecting our children's education are actually made by this board, and what decisions are controlled by the state, federal

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government, courts, contracts, and bureaucracy? Parents are told that public schools are locally controlled. There's this myth of home rule, but I get the impression that when it comes down to discretion of what you do with your budgets, and what to do with curriculum, has

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already largely been decided at a higher level. So, my questions are very simple. Question number one. Can the board identify the three most significant educational policies currently affecting Woodbridge students that are entirely under local board

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authority, and not required by state or federal law? And I know that's probably an easy one. Number two. What percentage of the district's budget is effectively committed by state mandates, contractual obligations, and regulatory

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requirements before the board exercises any meaningful discretion. And question number three, before committing $41 million to a school designed around the traditional district model, did the board evaluate lower cost

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educational alternatives? In fact, can it even have the ability to evaluate micro-schools, learning pods, expanded home schooling partnerships, or shared use facilities? And if not, why not?

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And lastly, if local control is the justification for local taxation and local school governance, then taxpayers deserve a clear understanding of how much local control actually remains. Thank you.

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>> Thank you. Do you want quick answers like right now? >> Well, if you have the time. Are they answerable right now? Or at least in part? >> Yeah, I >> We're going to have to shut down. >> Should I reread the questions? >> No. Um

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>> No, we we've got your questions. >> I know you addressed it to the board, Mr. Lana. I know I'll I'll answer generally on on behalf. Um if you look at the budget, you can see what's dedicated towards salary and benefits. That that is going to take up the majority of any budget, um which I I think you know. I think when you look at

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a place like Woodbridge and then you start to look at out-of-district costs. I mean, our out-of-district costs are are probably bigger than some small district's entire budget. So, um I you know, I don't I don't want to get into a philosophical debate with you in terms of, you know, what we see as

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discretionary. Um you are an educator, right, in a school district. So, I you know, I would ask you, what do you have the freedom to teach in terms of can you go outside of a a board-approved curriculum that is dependent on state standards? You know, if if you want to keep your job, the answer is no. You you

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can't. You you have to teach in accordance with what the state guidelines give. So, um you know, when you look at priorities, that that's going to be debatable. If you asked everybody on this committee, um would they come up with the same three? Uh I don't know. You know, I would we'd probably have to really dive down into

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your question because it did have multiple components. Uh what I would say is if you take a look at the budget, you can see how much money we really do have uh to spend on things like curricular resources uh you know, and and other related items.

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Like every district in the in the state, we are looking at soaring health costs and transportation costs, you know, fuel is what it is, insurance costs um across the board. So, the idea is we try to provide a balanced budget. Um we put our students first. I do think uh

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the things we have invested in, both curricular and and outside uh to support curricular, have been appropriate and and we'll continue to look at it, and that's going to change as as things go on, but um you know, I think you know the answer to most of those questions in in terms of what fixed costs look like and and what we have the opportunity to

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invest in. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Good evening and namaste everyone. Uh my name is Mahesh Ankulkar. Uh I have been a resident of Iselin for past 15 years. My younger younger son is a rising high

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schooler, and my elder son, Ishan Ankulkar, is currently pursuing his bachelor's degree at Princeton University. And I'm proud to say he was also his class valedictorian of year 2022.

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I'm here with me actually I have here my colleague Pawan Kumar also. Uh Uh, I'm here today representing the Hindu Education Foundation named as HEF. This is an initiative of Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh

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USA, also named as HSS. The HSS is 501c3 voluntary non-profit social, educational, and cultural organization with over 250 weekly chapters

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across the United States. At Woodbridge, HSS works closely with the township and the Board of Education on multiple community service programs including our annual Sewa Diwali food

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drives, highway cleanups, which we do bi-bi-monthly, and weekly community yoga sessions held at Woodbridge Main Library. For the past 14 years, during the Teacher Appreciation Week in May,

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we have recognized and celebrated the invaluable contribution of our educators in Woodbridge. Every year, we organize an annual event called Guru Vandana. This year, around 30 educators from

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Woodbridge were honored in two different events on May 14 and May 16. In Sanskrit, the guru means teacher or mentor. And Vandana means offering respect. Together, Guru Vandana represent an

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expression of a deep gratitude and reverence towards teachers. So, I would like actually my colleague Pawan Kumar also to add a couple of few words on this about this event. Thank you. >> So, we, as part of HSS, we believe in a system where

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the society will be glorified when the teachers are respected and given a devotion. So, that's why we believe that teachers play a critical role in shaping not only the academic journey, but also the character and the future of our children. So, your patience, dedication, and

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compassion leave a lasting impact on generations. In our tradition, there is a saying that Acharya Devo Bhava. That means which means the teacher is to be revered like God. So, it reflects the high respect accorded to educators as guiding lights

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in our society. So, yeah, I would like to give my best for ending words. >> Thanks, Pawan. Yeah. So, through the Hindu Education Foundation, we strive to build a meaningful collaboration with the school and educators.

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On behalf of Hindu Education Foundation and HSS, I extend our heartfelt gratitude to all of our teachers. Your dedication inspires, uplifts, and shapes the future. Thank you for everything you do. Thank

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you and Namaste. >> Thank you very much. >> Pawan, thank you for coming up and and and the kind words you said. Um I I I can speak on behalf of of many of the um central office administrators. You know, Dr. Jack Rielly, Mr. Pastoreno, we we've we've been principals in the building, we've

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attended your event. Um I I attended your event as a principal, as an assistant superintendent, as a superintendent. Um and and I can you know, I know Mr. Ali can probably speak in more depth. Uh but the connection that you have made with our community, the level of of appreciation, mutual appreciation we have for you, you have for our staff, um

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go goes a long way in in building the culture of our community and and we also want to extend a thank you to you for for your commitment to our community, our students. Uh it makes a difference. I do think it makes us stronger and and we really do appreciate all you do. So, thank you. >> Sure. It's a good bunch of people to work with.

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>> Thank you very much. Appreciate it. >> That's good. >> Sorry about that. >> Thank you. >> Good evening all board of members. Actually, I'm here. My name is Vina Magam. I'm the mom of 12 and 4-year kid and he's my husband. His

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name is Prem Kumar Money. And today I'm here to speak out >> Can you Can you Can you just say that the the part of the townships that you reside in? >> Uh I live in I'm the resident of Iselin, Woodbridge. Yeah. I'm here to speak in of

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continuing the pre-K program for the three and sorry, the four year I mean the four year old kids for the upcoming school year. Okay. Early childhood is one of the most important period for language development for our

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multi-language multi-language learners access to ESL support in pre-K helps build communication skills, confidence, and readiness for the kindergarten. Uh these early interventions can have a lasting impact on students' academic success and their

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ability to fully participate in the classroom. Uh Uh the pre the pre-K program also helps families connect with the school community and supports a strong foundation for learning from the very beginning of the school education

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journey. Uh so here we are here to request the board members for to extend the upcoming school year pre-K program.

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It would help us a lot for our kids and the as a parent of more working as a parent of a three four-year kid uh it would be so helpful for us. We request all of you to

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consider our request for for the pre-K program is what my uh request. Yeah. Thank you for the time and consideration. >> Thank you so much. We appreciate you being here this evening. I think you

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All right, thank you. >> Actually, I already had a discussion with Mr. Paul Postolino last month. So, and just we I conveyed our I requested for the same for the continuation of the pre-K ESL program.

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Um, yeah. And we were here to just still speak about that in front of the board members. And thank you a lot. Thanks a lot for giving this opportunity. >> Thank you. All right, thank you very much. Thank you. >> Good [clears throat] everybody. Child with autism.

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Uh, the last meeting when I was over here school board meeting, I brought a thing about the certain councilman, which I just say Carl Anderson. Uh, every meeting with things about school, it talks about how good we do in sports.

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And how we do this and that, and I kind of brought it up that they should talk more about the academics. And I know there's a good results and smart good academics in this school, too. I think what we should do, praise the kids, not just the do with sports, but

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praise the kids that do other things. I think that should be brought from every from the parents like they try to build them. You got to bring the morale up. You pay more attention maybe to somebody scores a big points in a football field or baseball field, what do you call it, then so forth. But again, every day of

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shooting school, you see that some child that blossoms, becomes somebody. That's the time to catch him on. Like in foreign countries, I know, they pick the student from day one that they think they're going to be somebody. And you go after him and admire him,

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push him forward, forward, forward. And other time you're going to find that kids like that are put down not by the teachers but by the other students because they bully them because they call them names. That's got to be stopped. But I think

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what's cool lessons to be learned. Look at the foreign students come to this country. I'm talking there's a lot of kids with the problems, different problems, of course the language. When it comes beside the language,

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I believe the more advanced in the age, the most of the our kids and that's my own experience and my family that's happening. My kids are My grandkids are now in Africa. And the schools are more better doing there than we do over here. Maybe we could learn something from

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them. Maybe it's the parents. Maybe it's the discipline. Maybe it's other things that we can catch a while those kids different. Make better or some of the worse, which is lot of them too. Why some of them are so good, one of them is so kind of like

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back back besides on back. I think this is what we have to do. Just don't go and take something the project and we're going to do this now for 2 years, 5 years. If it doesn't work, stop it. Don't follow it and then after 10 years,

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I don't want to bring it up, but where I grew up and I come to this country, they would have a 5-year budget. If for 5 years the good or bad they would follow. And most of that was paid. If it doesn't work, don't do it. But we do have a

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kids >> [snorts] >> that we work with. Especially in this country, we got people from all over the world, kids over there. We see it what work, what doesn't work. They tell us. They those kids tell us what work, doesn't work. So don't push somebody if something that

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interested or they can't do it or maybe their religion or maybe their whatever it is. You get something you can watch it's in front of our eyes. And I know you do, but again I hope in the future like Mr. Anderson Congressman Anderson said well, you

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know, we had a student who went to Milaca's College and two of them what went to Harvard next year and one went to Yale. Well, that's Milaca's College. It's not Woodbridge Township schools.

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It's you people you see the flower the blossoms among the kids. Take him under your arms as you help him maybe we'll get help from the parents or whatever disability or something, but you people can pick up the students if

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they're blossoming. And those students will help other students. I know my grandson is doing it and my son believes in schools to do it. He's a tutor of kids after school on the way from school to do their homework. So, this is what we do. Pick up the

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top of the class, encourage him, give recognition, make him feel important. Maybe people put him down maybe their parents put him down you're not good they're not good but you still can do it or cannot do it. And it's just not just spend the money. It's money is not money is not going to

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do. Yes, put the lights on, put the decent on but it does not educate people. It's something that we kind of uh neglected. We just think well you know, we bring them down we do something else. But you the people and

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everybody should do something with it. But it's in front of your eyes. You can see examples. No place in the world like in this country you can see who's prospering, who is going behind. It's got to be the reason. What's wrong? It's not you, it's not teachers. It's

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something that we got a different element that you work with. So, you just can't put a one to two grade doing good. What happened to the fourth? By the time they get to high school, they're so far behind they can't catch up. >> Mr. Turk, thank you. That's your time. >> I want to thank you for your time, but then thank you. >> Thank you. Have a good night, Mr. Mr.

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Turk. >> Madam President. Madam President. >> Yeah. >> Um Yeah, I just wanted to um sir, you you had a concern that you were stating that deals with the municipal council. I just wanted to make sure that you understood that that concern should go to the

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municipal council. You stated a You stated your first part of your statement had to do with the town council, our municipal council, that you should state that when you go to the municipal council meeting. >> No, no, no, no, no. I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that he brought it up.

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>> No. >> Yeah, I know he was talking about me. That's what I said over here. >> Okay. All right. >> But I would I would >> I think what she's I think what she's asking is you just keep anyone on the council on that side and anyone here on this side. Thank you. Anyone in the council Don't You don't We understand

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who he is, but >> He He said that what he said something to >> what we're here for. So, have a great night, Mr. Turk. Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> My apologies. Actually, I have a request like uh

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>> We We can speak I'm so sorry. The rules are that you get to speak one time, but you we can speak after the meeting if that's okay. >> Uh okay. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. Mhm. Sure. >> Good evening. Uh thank you for the opportunity to address this board. My

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name is Gerald Maglio from the Dolores Turco Foundation. I'd like to continue on the conversation of um of uh a policy's experimenting with children, and unfortunately some of the failed experiments which the whole language learning rather than phonics

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and new math rather than learning multiplication but my focus is gender affirmation and um and this is what I'd like to actually clear up some comments from Vice President I think it's Traubasser

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at a meeting a prior meeting um that he appeared to be under the um I guess impression that teachers in the district are obligated to comply with the transgender policy. However, teachers do not lose their constitutional right to freedom of religion

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when they come to the school and this policy violates their freedom of religion and there have been about I'll just mention for it's a VA school district paid 575,000 in a lawsuit wrote on by a Christian teacher California district paid 360,000

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and and the list goes on and on. The second thing I comment I'd like to respond to uh was that a comment that they are not that schools are not pushing gender affirming medications or surgeries and that quote every effort is made to

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initiate conversations between the child and parents. This indicates that the school district district is highly likely not in compliance with transgender policy. I don't know what the policy number is but the transgender policy which was 5756

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um and it should consider strongly with strongly consider rescinding it. Um the reason I say that is because the policy requires quote that ensures that the school counselors are knowledgeable regarding issues concerning relevant gender students etc. And these and

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regarding also the protocols. Now the protocols consist of affirming the child's gender identity and transitioning these minors and the policy requires that the school seek professionals, including counselors, um that provide excuse me, provide the

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support for the students. So, these professionals fail to explore the mental health issues and social factors that contribute to gender dysphoria, and they hastily offer interventions uh of gender affirmation and these uh

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uh medications that are used to castrate sex sex um offenders, and also um procedures that um sterilize children and mutilate healthy body parts. Uh the second one comment that I wanted to uh

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um respond to had to do with um the counselors uh it schools are advised in terms of working with the parents. And schools are advised if the parents differ with the with the child's um

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gender identity, then the student the schools are advised to work with the student and create an appropriate confidentiality plan regarding the student's transgender or transitioning status. Now, being that there's no requirement to notify the parents and the school

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personnel are encouraged to conceal this information, actively involving parents could be a violation of policy transgender policy 5756. So, in summary, under the current policy and also in terms of working with parents, um

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the the policy specifically says when the minor disagrees with the parent that uh they are to refer that to the school uh board attorney. And uh they also refer counseling support, and that counseling import support includes referring to the child abuse neglect uh

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which is obviously not working with parents. So, in summary, this current school policy schools can work with professionals on a confidential basis without the knowledge or consent of parents to transition minors without needing a threshold diagnosis

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or even appropriate mental screening. And these transitioning protocols subject these children to very harmful dangerous medical interventions. I just wanted to point out also regarding the the LAD.

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You will probably be hearing from You may or may not be aware that New Jersey Westwood Board of Education is being sued. The 5756 were told to to repeal it or they'll be being sued. You Your attorney may may or may not be aware that LAD was

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never intended. It was only intended to handle employment, housing, and public accommodations. It was never a license for school districts to to hide medically and psychologically significant information from parents. So, um these lawsuits are coming down in

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New Jersey. They're all over the country, but in New Jersey you already have a massive federal complaint against the Board of Education of Hackensack, North Burlington, >> I'm sorry, ma'am. That's your time. >> Okay. Thank you. God bless, and thank you for the opportunity. >> I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. I

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have a motion by Mr. Tree Wasser. Second Seconded by Mr. Della Picher. All in favor? Any opposed? Carried. >> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Mhm.