4/16/13 - Barnegat Township School District

for the cause. The only thing I can say now is if this ends with you having to stay here and take avote, vote no, revisit this and regroup, think again. If you are not prepared and you don’t havethe numbers tonight to know what these changes do and how they help, then we have not lookedat it hard enough and maybe we all need to come back next month and look at it again. I will behere and I hope the rest of us will be here too. Vote no, take a chance, go out on a limb and sayno.Mrs. Olker: Anyone else?Michele Demassi, 6 Adrift: I was not going to could up a speak whatsoever but I was listeningto everyone speaking and I know you have a tough job because I do the same thing, I work withbudgets every day and it is hard. In fact, I am going home to do it after I leave here. What otheritems are in the budget that you can cut? Do you have capital stuff that you can cut that youwould save on depreciation? Make some of the administrators part-time instead of the teacherswe need to help the kids. You said you need to evaluate the teachers and that is why you needadministrators, well, I am sorry but I think the teachers are more important. They are helping ourchildren. I am a Mom and a grandmother of children here in this district and the kids need theirteachers, they don’t need as many administrators as they have. Nobody answered the woman’squestion as to why we have so many principals and vice principals, cut some of them back andhelp our children to learn so they can have an education and make a difference in the futurebecause that it what it is back. It is not about an administrator saying well, we don’t need thisprogram because you are hurting the kids. You are hurting the kids, you are not hurtingyourselves because you still have a job at the end of the day, I am talking about administrators.You are hurting the children.Mrs. Olker: Thank you. Anyone else?Ms. Demasssi: Answer the question please.Ms. Wood: I was taking notes when the Transportation Aide spoke, I don’t know if she is stillhere. Her question was why do we have three vice principals in one school.Voice: My question was why do we have so many vice principals in each school.Ms. Wood: I can respond to that, your original statement though, and I am a little confused, wasbecause you said why we have three vice principals in one school and we do not have thatsituation. At the high school we have one principal and two vice principals; middle school wehave one principal and two vice principals.Voice: Why two at the high school?Ms. Wood: Because we have 1,000 students at the high school. It is very difficult to find apopulation of 1,000 where you would have two vice principals at the high school. I hope thatanswers your question. The district structure is based on a typical population as well asunderstanding that the Barnegat School District is in a particular district factor grouping. Thedistrict factor groupings have gone by the wayside and the state now recognizes schools as peerBarnegat Township Board of Education Meeting MinutesApril 16, 2013 Page 36