From the Record:
N.J. employment drops by 4,700 jobs
New Jersey employment declined by 4,700 jobs in July, according to preliminary data from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, following a strong jobs report in June. The jobless rate rose to 5.2 percent last month from 5.1 percent.
The latest data puts the brakes on job-creation momentum in the state. In June, New Jersey’s private sector added 22,200 jobs in June, its best month since February 1996. The jobs total was lifted by the return to work of thousands of striking Verizon employees. The jobs report today said previously released June estimates were revised lower by 4,200, to show an over-the-month non-farm employment gain of 16,100 nonfarm jobs.
“The downward revision to June’s payroll figure is unsurprising given how strong the preliminary estimate was. This combined with July’s job loss clearly illustrates the volatility that has characterized monthly payroll growth throughout 2016,’’ said James Wooster, chief economist for the New Jersey Department of Treasury, in a statement.
Sectors that contracted in July were construction (-3,200), professional and business services (-2,400), leisure and hospitality (-1,600) and information (-400). The public sector recorded a loss of 300 jobs.
Industries that gained employment in July included education and health services (+1,000), manufacturing (+900), financial activities (+800), other services (+400), and trade, transportation and utilities (+200).
Jobs stagnating, transportation fund completely depleted, pensions most likely reaching a tipping point…NJ needs another 800 billion dollar “stimulus” package to go into Wall St. so it can leak into the suburbs again.
Even cartoon tacos are subject to the thought police:
http://www.autostraddle.com/we-messed-up-348709/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDOsfxBqxUA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReJOJR-DImU
1 stop knocking New Jersey. Ignore that negativity it’s all fine. We have the smartest bestest people here with the smartest bestest schools! We are right next to nyc everybody wants to be here. Don’t count jersey out! We are just in a reinvention stage. We are going to come back better and stronger! And those pesky little irritants you mention will go away! The 2020 s are coming! You just wait don’t count nj out!! I am bringing positivity to this blog! Not like all you nay Sayers!!
Nobody here really wants to be here.
Essex #6, Amen
On another note, too bad JJ isn’t around any more. I need to know when the next market implosion is coming.
Nobody here really wants to be here.
I do. I enjoy the food in New Jersey moreso than any other state. It’s just a shame we’ve created a scenario that drives companies and talented people from the state.
On another note, too bad JJ isn’t around any more. I need to know when the next market implosion is coming.
I wasn’t impressed with JJ until after the market crashed. He knew everything that should be swiped up from crappiest of bonds to decent stocks.
He knew who butters the governing class’ bread in this country. That’s for sure.
So what happened to JJ? Did he just stop posting and go away? Is he dead? Any explanation?
[11] The prevailing theory is that JJ either lost his job or his excessive posting was found out and he stopped, since JJ only ever posted from work. JJ’s LinkedIn profile stayed the same for a long time but has just recently been spruced up along with a new picture, but he still claims to have the same job. According to tax records he still owns the same house.
JJ was washed down the drain in the Fixed-Income Cull during the great Financial Bloodbath of 2016.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-big-bank-bloodbath-losses-near-half-a-trillion-dollars-1467835126
The End Is Nigh (Libturd-Umbilical Cord-Placenta Edition):
MONTCLAIR, N.J.—When Janelle Anderson and Darryle Bogan proposed a French-immersion charter school, they envisioned it addressing what they felt was this district’s insufficient foreign-language instruction and stubborn achievement gap between black and white students.
The response has stunned them.
Critics have flooded New Jersey state officials with letters and emails asking that permission be denied. They have bashed the idea at public meetings, brandished signs against it in the Fourth of July parade, canvassed at the farmers market and handed out magnets saying “NO.”
Ms. Anderson and Ms. Bogan, who are both parents, say the proposed “Montclair Charter School” would help children become multilingual and thrive academically. Opponents argue that such a boutique option would drain millions of dollars from the district schools, forcing painful cuts in staff and programs.
The issue has grown so heated that Ms. Anderson said she fears retaliation against her family. She was taken aback, she said, when the district administration’s first email against her proposal popped up on her phone one spring evening.
“My face fell when I realized just what could happen as backlash,” she said. “Where are the kids in this?”
This uproar comes to a diverse, mostly liberal town about 15 miles west of New York City. Some residents of Montclair, whose system serves about 6,700 students, support charters in troubled, high-poverty New Jersey districts such as Newark and Camden, but say their suburban community doesn’t need one.
Montclair is also home to influential advocates of quality charters, including Newark Superintendent Chris Cerf, who declined to comment. Matthew Frankel, a resident who has promoted charters statewide, said the French-immersion proposal doesn’t “reflect the priorities of Montclair.”
Ms. Anderson is a partner at a venture-capital firm that invests in life sciences, while Ms. Bogan worked in product development at a fashion retailer. They plan to keep fighting for the charter school and said that supporters, discreetly, are cheering them on.
The project passed the first of two rounds of state review in June. Some opponents worry that Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican, will push his education department to approve it as part of his renewed call for more charters, and as payback for Montclair’s high rate of boycotting state tests in the past two years.
Robert Russo, a Montclair councilman and Democrat who has expressed interest in running for governor, fears the charter will pass. In his view, Mr. Christie would “like to say that the most progressive town in New Jersey…is embracing a charter school. But we’re not.”
Brian Murray, a spokesman for the governor, said the rigorous approval process is guided by state law. “This administration will encourage successful charter-school programs wherever the state Department of Education deems appropriate and whenever they can effectively provide parents with an alternative to a failing public school,” he said by email.
The state education department said it would decide on the proposal around Sept. 30. If approved, the charter would still need to prove its readiness to open in fall 2017.
Department officials said they take local feedback into consideration. Charter opponents, however, have long complained that residents have too little say, and some have lobbied in the state capital for bills that would give communities the power to block them.
Ms. Bogan and Ms. Anderson said they were inspired to propose the school because Montclair cut back on foreign-language courses during the recession and didn’t sufficiently restore them. The charter would teach mostly in French, except for classes devoted to English and Spanish. The curriculum would focus heavily on STEAM, or science, technology, engineering, arts and math.
Under the proposal, the school would start with spots for 300 students in kindergarten through fifth grade and later expand to 450 students through eighth grade.
A multilingual approach would attract a diverse student body and help close Montclair’s achievement gap, Ms. Anderson said. About 27% of the district’s students are black, and their overall performance lags significantly behind their white peers, who make up about half of the district, data from the district show.
“It’s a myth that Montclair public schools serve all children wonderfully,” said Ms. Anderson.
Montclair’s interim superintendent, Roland Bolandi, said the applicants didn’t address how the charter would help special-needs students or find qualified faculty, among other concerns. He said Montclair’s language program exceeds state requirements, with instruction in Mandarin and Spanish.
He added that the proposed charter would risk further segregating Montclair schools. For decades the district has had a magnet-school system that aims to boost diversity by drawing children from different neighborhoods to schools focused on such themes as technology and environmental science.
By Mr. Bolandi’s count, the charter would divert up to $4.7 million, depending on how many students it attracts. If the district serves fewer students it would face lower costs, but its expenses wouldn’t drop enough to make up for lost funds, the charter’s critics say. In contrast with urban districts funded mostly by state dollars, 93% of Montclair’s $119 million school budget for 2016-17 comes from local property taxes.
“It’s an eye-opener that the state can take our taxpayer dollars and the community has no voice,” said Regina Tuma, a leader of Montclair Cares About Schools, an advocacy group opposed to the proposed charter. “Montclair is realizing how powerless we can become.”
Ms. Anderson said it had become “politically correct” in town to balk at the charter, but deep down, “I think they’re worried it will be a success.”
9. NJ is OK man. It’s home. I’ve lived in 6 States.
The curriculum would focus heavily on STEAM, or science, technology, engineering, arts and math.
Buzzword alert. Huge red flag. Anyone that promotes their program with the use of the word STEM or STEAM has no clue about education.
1. They probably have no idea between the differences of the three prominent high school sciences.
2. Technology classes are not well defined and often have very little focus in a new school.
3. Engineering classes have no place in a high school curriculum. The students do not have the proper foundation to even think about real engineering and often this is a task that is now thrust upon science teachers with no experience in engineering. Typically, “engineering” in high school is double speak for kids get to fool around with Legos and drones.
4. Some moron proposed that Art be included in this broad grouping of subjects and anyone that repeats the term STEAM is just doing it because they think it’s trendy.
5. Every F*ing school focuses on Mathematics.
People just need to stop with tossing the term STEM around. It has no real meaning.
Ben,
I agree with what you say, generally.
What do you think about what this owner of a private school says about education?
http://www.vandammeacademy.com/an-interview-with-miss-vandamme.php
In lectures you’ve given, you have emphasized the need to teach content hierarchically. Can you explain what you mean by that?
L: All knowledge is hierarchical—it is gained in incremental steps, building from simple observations and progressing to knowledge at a greater and greater level of abstraction. Before a student learns calculus, he must know algebra; before he learns algebra, he must know arithmetic; before arithmetic, he must know his numbers; and so on. This principle, though generally understood as applied to math, has important pedagogical implications for the teaching of all subjects. Politics, for example, is a highly abstract subject that should follow extensive study of history; yet many social studies classes today begin with hot-button political issues, evading the fact that the students do not have the prerequisite knowledge to judge them. Science classes dive in with such advanced, technical knowledge as the structure of the atom, or such abstract principles as Newton’s laws of motion, without first laying down the observations and principles that made these advanced discoveries possible. If a teacher’s goal is to ensure that his students have real, independent knowledge, he must teach hierarchically, beginning with principles at a simple level and building up as the student is prepared for the next level of abstraction.
INT: What are the consequences of learning things in the wrong hierarchical order?
L: If they are not learned in hierarchical order they are not really learned. Any child can be taught to recite the principle that “an object in motion remains in motion unless a force acts upon it,” but this only reflects knowledge if he himself understands the proof. In this case, that means he must know the series of steps by which scientists came to understand this far-from-obvious principle. Unthinking repetition is not knowledge. If a teacher wishes his students to have real understanding, he must teach his subject hierarchically, guiding the students incrementally through the steps necessary for a thorough grasp of the material.
Ben [16];
Couldn’t agree more — and I have an engineering undergrad degree. How can I in good conscience steer my kinds into a field where wages are being actively suppressed by straight-up off-shoring to India, et al., and H1B racketeer on-shoring?
Con’t [18];
When you add “arts” to STEM, the term becomes so broad to lose any meaning. Was likely done to avoid hurting the feelings of the “Liberal Arts” types who dominate primary education.
[16] Well said, Ben. I never even heard of STEAM before, I figured those two Frenchies made it up.
Ben – Do most HS curricula still run Science and Math in the same order? My recollection was it went like this and seemed to work fine.
Science (one discipline per year in this order):
1. Biology
2. Chemistry
3. Physics
4. Choose the advanced version of whichever of the above you liked best.
Math
1. Geometry (assuming you had Algebra in 8th grade)
2. Algebra II
3. Trigonometry
4. Calculus
So STEAM = steaming turd?
But with flourish and flair.
So STEAM = steaming turd?
“steamturd” would be a good new handle for you?
Libturd supporting the Canklephate (Channeling JJ) says:
August 18, 2016 at 4:53 pm
So STEAM = steaming turd?
OK.
For ease of reference, there’s a new website now to celebrate all of Pumpkins successful accomplishments. Might want to keep it handy for when he stops by to offer his insights.
http://www.tinyurl.com/PumpkinsVictorySong
Your STEM school argument reminds me of the quote below. However, at the end of the day is a lot of hard work to go from Data to Wisdom. Which most people are mehh about.
Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom
The following quotation is from the Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre, a non-profit organization established in 1999.
Individual bits or “bytes” of “raw” biological data (e.g. the number of individual plants of a given species at a given location) do not by themselves inform the human mind. However, drawing various data together within an appropriate context yields information that may be useful (e.g. the distribution and abundance of the plant species at various points in space and time). In turn, this information helps foster the quality of knowing (e.g. whether the plant species is increasing or decreasing in distribution and abundance over space and time). Knowledge and experience blend to become wisdom–the power of applying these attributes critically or practically to make decisions.
Ben,
I disagree. First off Stem vs Steam. I am a big proponent of Steam and the A is not a gimme to the Liberal Arts, it is to introduce creativity into the mix. Think of the perfect Steam discipline, Architecture. Any engineer can build you a building or a bridge, but the architect, brings an aesthetic to the mix that they don’t teach in engineering school. While true art talent cannot really be taught, if you don’t have exposure to it, it will for the most part be bypassed. I work in programming and there is a lot of creativity. How do you think Apple and Microsoft got started and function.
Tim Cook, a perfect example, an industrial engineer, putting rounded corners on the iphones, and redefining the whole engineering process.
20 years ago you still had the arts, science split and Science was the big four Physics, Chemistry, Math and biology. Technology was just fledgling. Now technology is branching off from App design to Oculus Rift. Stem/Steam is more of an umbrella.
These days the app developer does not need to know how to derive Simple Harmonic motion from first principles, they just need the equation. That is the difference. The engineering taught at this level does not need the heavy math so much, just like the Java programmer does not need to know how the libraries were written. Yes its a backward step in some ways, but there again, I haven’t used a slide rule and Trig tables in 30 years.
Education is evolving.
Bingo, owners of charter schools are some of the biggest con artists out there. I can not and will not ever understand why you would support a “for profit charter school” as opposed to a public school. Any of the pro arguments for charter schools are straight up cons. I know some people on this blog referred to them as “cheaper” and “more successful” than public schools. They have been sucked in and duped by a con, and don’t even know it. All they hear are “cheaper” and “successful”, and they are sold, hook, line, and sinker. Keep searching for that magic pill to solve education’s relationship with poverty.
Ben says:
August 18, 2016 at 4:04 pm
The curriculum would focus heavily on STEAM, or science, technology, engineering, arts and math.
Buzzword alert. Huge red flag. Anyone that promotes their program with the use of the word STEM or STEAM has no clue about education.
1. They probably have no idea between the differences of the three prominent high school sciences.
2. Technology classes are not well defined and often have very little focus in a new school.
3. Engineering classes have no place in a high school curriculum. The students do not have the proper foundation to even think about real engineering and often this is a task that is now thrust upon science teachers with no experience in engineering. Typically, “engineering” in high school is double speak for kids get to fool around with Legos and drones.
4. Some moron proposed that Art be included in this broad grouping of subjects and anyone that repeats the term STEAM is just doing it because they think it’s trendy.
5. Every F*ing school focuses on Mathematics.
People just need to stop with tossing the term STEM around. It has no real meaning.
….and you are calcifying in place you useless assh0le…….
Fabius Maximus says:
August 18, 2016 at 7:29 pm
Education is evolving
What he said! NSFW
http://www.tinyurl.com/za289q3
#30 Chi
There is an app for your career, written by someone like me!
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-best-online-tools-for-retirement-planning-and-living-1421726470
http://www.tinyurl.com/PumpkinsVictorySong
Flab: I found your replacements….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8OJB5qLZ6o
#31 redux
Trying again.
http://www.tinyurl.com/za289q2
Glad that you finally saw the light.
If nj falls, so does America. When I see nj ranked in the bottom 20 states in terms of wealth, then I will agree with you that nj is dead, and I will also agree that America is dead. Till then, we are in the process of upgrading our ports and infrastructure to be leaders in the 21st century.
I don’t care about the games Christie is playing with the gas tax and transportation fund, it’s all political bs to try and push an agenda/power grab. They will pass the gas tax, there will be a big push to fix infrastructure in nj and America. It will all be a part of the 2020 boom decade. I’m not stressed over any this. Some fat politician is not going to ruin my day because he claims the sky is falling. Sorry, I don’t fall for that nonsense rhetoric.
3b says:
August 18, 2016 at 1:42 pm
1 stop knocking New Jersey. Ignore that negativity it’s all fine. We have the smartest bestest people here with the smartest bestest schools! We are right next to nyc everybody wants to be here. Don’t count jersey out! We are just in a reinvention stage. We are going to come back better and stronger! And those pesky little irritants you mention will go away! The 2020 s are coming! You just wait don’t count nj out!! I am bringing positivity to this blog! Not like all you nay Sayers!!
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#34 chi
That’s what I’m talking about. Take the old antiquated eighties and reworking it into a new market and dynamic. That’s the A in Steam right there.
Did you recognize your future?
http://youtu.be/5F3EB5UT6KI
Just saying, the whole “make America great again” is aimed at making poor people with no jobs, or stuck in shitty jobs, have hope. America is great for the rich right now. So how is he going to make the poor’s life better without being a social!st/commun!st?
Pumps!!!! Woooo! Did you say Hope? As in Hope n Change?
Juice am I missing something on post 36?? He is responding to my text from earlier today. He can’t be serious?? Right??
Here is one for ya Pumps video is three and a half years old.
The guy on the right just turned down a whistleblower reward of 9.5 million. They guy on the left had Mozillo dead to rights. NO prosecutions under Hope n Change.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWGimLO26i4
If you want change you won’t get it with Hillary.
re # 41 – 3b my Bronx Boy still fighting the good fight. To me Pumps is welcome, as is his opinions. To me he exists as just one barometer for his upper middle class life up north in Bergen/Passaic counties. Don’t be too annoyed, life is too short and the summer will end soon.
Pumps in case you don’t believe….
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/aug/18/desutsche-bank-whistleblower-turns-down-award
17,
I agree. The critical thinking skills and independent reasoning abilities that most people believe are possible in high school are pipe dreams. Even the smartest kids in the state are 100% to being led astray by their own minds. You have to lay the foundation for them to think the right way. I say, by the end of junior year, you see the best start to develop that frame of mind (and by best I mean the top 10%). Aside from that, the other 90% is usually two years behind and blossoms around sophomore year of college.
I fully realize that my high school teachers (the few good ones), laid an amazing foundation for me to go off on my own in college. I see way too many people stress the cart before the horse. They want the students to think like scientists when they don’t know any god damned science.
Couldn’t agree more — and I have an engineering undergrad degree. How can I in good conscience steer my kinds into a field where wages are being actively suppressed by straight-up off-shoring to India, et al., and H1B racketeer on-shoring?
On one hand, I agree. On the other, I always tell my best students that the best people in each discipline are on top no matter what. I have a friend who graduated undergrad in engineering and immediately bought some equipment and opened up a machine shop. He’s his own man and does very well for himself.
Ben – Do most HS curricula still run Science and Math in the same order? My recollection was it went like this and seemed to work fine.
Science (one discipline per year in this order):
1. Biology
2. Chemistry
3. Physics
4. Choose the advanced version of whichever of the above you liked best.
Math
1. Geometry (assuming you had Algebra in 8th grade)
2. Algebra II
3. Trigonometry
4. Calculus
Most do. If they run Algebra II before Geometry, it still works out fine. In fact, you can run a more rigorous Geometry class in that case. Doesn’t make a big difference though.
As far a sciences go, some schools tried to “get hip” and run Physics freshman year. Big red friggin flag. The kids don’t learn much and it’s very inferior to what they would get junior year. Bio, Chem, Physics is the way to go with kids starting AP level Junior year if possible.
40 all true juice. Just stunned that he does not understand sarcasm. Or maybe he does and the jokes on me!! Either way when I do venture to visit the blog I will be sure to scroll past his posts!!
20 years ago you still had the arts, science split and Science was the big four Physics, Chemistry, Math and biology. Technology was just fledgling. Now technology is branching off from App design to Oculus Rift. Stem/Steam is more of an umbrella.
These days the app developer does not need to know how to derive Simple Harmonic motion from first principles, they just need the equation. That is the difference. The engineering taught at this level does not need the heavy math so much, just like the Java programmer does not need to know how the libraries were written. Yes its a backward step in some ways, but there again, I haven’t used a slide rule and Trig tables in 30 years.
Education is evolving.
Education is not evolving. It’s taking a long walk of a short pier. The app developer that needs an equation given to them is beholden to someone else. Part of the reason my students outperform the rest is that I don’t buy into any of the BS that is peddled around in the field of education.
Nikola Tesla would not have been able to build his generator off of equations alone. He correctly understood each phenomenon and used his amazing creativity to make the alternating current generator.
Regardless of what you think breeds success in the real world….the people tossing around the buzzwords “STEM” and “STEAM” are tossing around crap that has no meaning at all. STEM is a ridiculously broad term. An Environmental Science major has literally zero course overlap with a Mathematics Major…yet they are both classified as “STEM”. Anyone tossing those terms around in high school education knows little about Science, Engineering, or Math.
Any school that is telling you that they focus on STEM or STEAM is selling you a pile of sh1t for a curriculum. What you should be concerned about if you are looking for you kid to be a science or engineering major is whether or not that school offers a curriculum in which your child has the opportunity to take AP Bio, AP Chem, AP Physics 1, AP Physics 2, and AP Physics C (Mechanics and E&M) all by the time they graduate.
Yes, just like people bust my balls on this blog for missing sarcasm through text, you my friend, have done the same. I do not expect you to see the light. It was pure sarcasm. Now can you understand why I sometimes miss the sarcasm in people’s posts? If you don’t know the person personally, it’s not easy to tell if someone is being true or sarcastic with their text.
3b says:
August 18, 2016 at 9:45 pm
40 all true juice. Just stunned that he does not understand sarcasm. Or maybe he does and the jokes on me!! Either way when I do venture to visit the blog I will be sure to scroll past his posts!!
re # – 50 – awww Pumps we are mostly mean old men. Kind of like what you would find in a local yokel bar. If you sit down long enough you will be one of us…..
Juice, a lot of respect for this man. He took principle over money. This is the kind of character I look for in a leader. Why isn’t someone like him running for president? Instead we are stuck with picking between two clowns that are not that much different from each other.
[50] Pumpkov – I only bust your balls because you are a dope. OTOH, I guess missing sarcasm is one of the many tools in the dope tool belt.
Yes, just like people bust my balls on this blog for missing sarcasm through text
[47] Physics as a Freshman? How the hell are you going to understand polar to rectangular coordinate conversion without knowing first what a sine or cosine is? Yeah that would be some waste of time. I asked my going-into-9th-grade daughter what Math she had this year. She has Algebra II this year, preceding Geometry. One of the things I would change, if they haven’t already, is teaching why Calculus matters. I thought every last bit of it was nothing but learning parlor tricks until I was in my 3rd semester of college calc. The whole time I was thinking, WTF are all these integrations and derivatives good for until a guy with a pony tail showed us how to integrate acceleration to get velocity and then integrate velocity to get distance traveled. I remember being both instantly enlightened and pissed off that no one told me earlier. At least with trig you could see instantly how it applied to physics.
As far a sciences go, some schools tried to “get hip” and run Physics freshman year. Big red friggin flag. The kids don’t learn much and it’s very inferior to what they would get junior year.
Pumps – I was wrong the reward was only 8.3 Mil, and it was still turned down.
re: your point “He took principle over money”
If you want to be informed about the money and principles.
https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/
re: Hope n Change.
and Physics
I listen to StarTalk Radio Show by Neil deGrasse Tyson – on the way home from work? Makes me believe like I at a Bieber concert..
Can’t be against unions and at the same time be against nafta on the basis on helping American workers. They are the same thing. Donald Trump has turned that party into complete hypocrites.
“But for labor groups, there is no debate: Nafta hurt American jobs and household earnings. And the sweeping trade agreement cast a shadow that persists today, spurring deep skepticism of the major trade deals the Obama administration is negotiating with Europe and a dozen Pacific Rim countries”
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/27/nafta-still-bedevils-unions/?_r=0
[52] If Pumploop had any decent breeding or education, like those he admires so much, he wouldn’t have missed the obvious play on words and would have chosen to say, “He chose principle over principal.”
No Hamptons for you. Wayne is more your speed (just look outside)Whoosh, Whoosh, Turkey! Whoosh!
Great breakdown.
“All of this nonsense is the same thing that’s going on in Deal, Ocean Township, Jackson, Toms River and Howell. The scenario is this: the Hasidic and Satmar Orthodox rabbis move to these communities in order to start yeshivas (schools)and Jewish “houses of worship”. The young “rabbinical students”, along with their young wives and children, follow in droves. After moving into very fancy houses and townhouses (all owned by developers in the Orthodox community), the “wives” go over to the County Social Services and apply for welfare, food stamps, and Section 8 vouchers, which they are allowed to collect because as far as the State is concerned, they are single women with children because their “marriages” are legal only in a religious sense and were never registered with any state. In the meantime, many of these “rabbinical students” work under assumed names for relatives, either in the Diamond District in New York or in other businesses in New Jersey, thereby avoiding paying taxes, Social Security withholding and flying under the radar with Social Services (“I don’t know where my childrens’ father is”).
The above scenario is exactly what happened in Lakewood. Now, Lakewood was never a utopia on the hill, by any stretch of the imagination. But since the Orthodox took over the streets are filthy, garbage is strewn all over the place, traffic is horrible, and the school district is in shambles due to a lot of the school taxes being siphoned to pay for the private Orthodox schools and courtesy busing for the thousands of children that don’t even go to public school there. It is, without a doubt, the definition of a ghetto. And now this religious community, because of the massive overcrowding in Lakewood, wants to move into the above-named communities in Monmouth and Ocean Counties. If they are allowed to put houses of worship in every house in each of these towns, within five years the official language of Monmouth and Ocean County will be Yiddish, and our taxes will be used to pay for their fraudulent way of life.
I think the only reason this will not succeed in Millburn and Short Hills is (a) they have a LOT of money to fight it to the Supreme Court; and (b) a good majority of residents are Reform Jews and really don’t want their neighborhoods turned into a smaller version of Williamsburg or Monsey.”
http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2016/08/1949_agreement_will_stop_development_of_jewish_cen.html#incart_river_home_pop
Physics as a Freshman? How the hell are you going to understand polar to rectangular coordinate conversion without knowing first what a sine or cosine is?
It’s Physics without math. A crime against the subject. Consequently, AP has moved in that direction as well which is sickening to me. I still teach all the math they’ve eliminated from the current AP curriculum.
Ben (16)-
STEM? As in, “bitch, hand me my crack stem”?