The Montville Township Board of Education on Tuesday unanimously approved a resolution to hold school elections in November.
The change means the school board will not need voter approval on budgets that stay within a state-mandated 2 percent cap. Continue reading Patch.
The high school Key Club's 31st Annual Volleyball Marathon is set to take over the gyms at Montville Township High School on Friday, February 10th.
The five-hour event is the biggest fundraiser of the year for the Key Club, a service organization. Last year's event drew 58 teams. Continue reading The Patch.
When Montville Township High School juniors take the High School Proficiency
Assessment on three mornings in March, students in other grades will have the chance to sleep in.
High school principal Douglas Sanford suggested giving freshmen, sophomores and seniors a delayed opening so juniors can complete the statewide test in a less disruptive environment before the other students arrive, school officials said. Continue reading Patch.
Township resident and former Montville schools superintendent Dr. Richard G. Bozza was drawn to education by teachers and coaches who had a dramatic impact on his life.
So, despite politics, funding and other issues that often threaten to override students in the education equation, Bozza aspires to keep children at the forefront of every conversation, he said. Continue reading Patch.
Unfortunately, teasing is often part of growing up — almost every child experiences it. But it isn't always as innocuous as it seems. Words can cause pain. Teasing becomes bullying when it is repetitive or when there is a conscious intent to hurt another child. It can be verbal bullying (making threats, name-calling), psychological bullying (excluding children, spreading rumors), or physical bullying (hitting, pushing, taking a child's possessions). Continue reading Scholastic.com.
Fried says new law has good intent, but is 'very complex' and districts will 'struggle to comply.'
The New Jersey anti-bullying law, passed overwhelmingly by the legislature in January, is seen as the toughest in the country.
The bill gained momentum following the suicide of Rutgers student Tyler Clementi, who jumped to his death off the George Washington Bridge after his roommate allegedly filmed a romantic encounter between Clementi and another man without their knowledge and streamed it on the Internet. Continue reading Patch.
When Jill McCracken taught her Holmdel High School seniors about the anthrax panic that swept the nation following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, she could sense their confusion.
“They kind of squinted and said, ‘Oh … that’s why I couldn’t go get the mail.’ … It put their whole life in context,” McCracken recalled.
Ten years after the attacks, educators now are faced with a generation of students who were elementary school age or younger when they occurred. The very youngest of those students hadn’t even been born. Continue reading Daily Record.
After a summer of sleeping in or doing things on your time, the alarm bell announcing that first day of school can be a rude awakening. Whether you're an anxious new freshman or a confident senior, heading back to school signals a time of transition: new classes, new teachers, new schedules, and a new social scene.
Dread it or love it, you gotta go to school. Here are some ways to make the transition from summer to school a little easier.
There's no escaping the fact that the first day of school can be crazy. New kids wander around in circles. Lockers won't open. The school nurse needs your medical records. You forgot your gym shorts. Freshmen are running in all directions, looking for their homerooms. Continue reading KidsHealth.org.
Many families have overcome the plague of excessive teen drug abuse in their home. When their children have successfully completed treatment they become focused in their academics again, and often go on to attend college which would have been otherwise impossible the way things were going. Sobriety will bring the passion back into your child's life, and help them to achieve the goals that are important to them. Treatment will also give your child all the tools and support they need to live a life free of drug dependence and addiction. Continue reading Inspirationsyouth.com.
It is important for us to educate ourselves on issues pertaining to everything from social security to the debt crisis, right down to local decisions regarding whether to turf the fields at the high school or not. There are a myriad of opinions on these topics, some which tend to get very heated, often based on a personal perspective rather than fact. It's time to delve, very deeply, into genuine factual information, and stop all the finger pointing.
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