why doesn't it generate excitement in hoboken? teachers with tenure can't be fired so the fact that the school board fired her from all of her coaching jobs is BIG news. you want to make it political then let's go there ... burrell is best friends with the school board president and cozy with city hall to get herself on the housing board but she can't keep her coaching job? somethings up...
and are you saying that kids first was playing the race card by getting rid of jb?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_card

As Ro is white & Burrell is African-American, the race card doesn't really make sense here. But that would not stop the perpetually politically desperate CuriousGal, Prosbus, OutOfControl, MadisonMonroe from making this a racial issue. Just look at what was made of moving the St Pats parade, ie, anti-Irish, Hibernaphobia, etc, etc. Drivel, but par for the course. At least *this* course.

It remains to be seen why Burrell was not re-appointed. The void will be filled with agenda-driven speculation. So it goes.

yeah dude you've got a great nose for news. longtime coach and political crony gets unceremoniously dumped and you say thank you.

Noted Judy Burrell's work on the HHA thanking her for service to Hoboken.
Yet another pop up screen name to vent your bile? How unfortunate for you.

the school board and judy burrell's best friend the board president fire her from the THREE coaching jobs she's had for years and you are disappointed. not curious at all? you really think ro markle fired her best friend for no good reason on a whim at the last minute? think again. imagine what jb must have done to screw up so badly. hmmmm.

Scotty, you really should take off the cheerleaders skirt tonight. You don't know the details and you probably want to open that door.

Did the AD want the coaches kept on? The BOE doesn't make these decisions in isolation. Usually someone like the AD gives them their recommendation and the BOE usually follows it.

Time for change. Maybe it is time to bring in someone who is not a produce of the Hoboken High School program because the overall school has been terrible for so long.

Redrider765- I don't think the AD was consulted on this decision, do you? ;-)

Paula Ohaus actually quit twice before she was denied tenure. Now the drama is on the stage and not BOE meetings. I wish Paula well and if she learns how to follow School Rules (no more jammy jam sleepovers and manufactured crises that go to the media) I would almost be happy to see her come back. Almost.

The drama program goes on and the kids are now more involved since they can actually learn how to build sets rather than have a bunch of professionals do it for them. Sure, The sets might not be as polished but this is about the kids and not the ego of some HS theater director that is trying to win a Tony every play at taxpayer expense.

The author of this sludge could only be one very bitter person who is now the butt of whispered jokes at the Republican Committee for her very public meltdown. Yes, the author of this drek is the kind of lizard who would launch a personal, mean-spirited attack on a woman in mourning. Yikes, you are a piece of work.

Give it your best shot, 'glasshouses'. Just make sure your own house isn't made of glass.

"If I can't be a board member, nobody can!"

http://grafixavenger.blogspot.com/2012/01/sullivans-pattern-of-misconduct.html

Darn, glasshouses, I thought you had an actual concern here. But your cup of schadenfreude overflowed once again. "Those 2 lugs are always together."

Two lugs? Ahhhhh.... You don't like either of them. You just like the idea of some possible exquisite discomfort between friends and care not a jot for what actually happened or why. One could just as easily be impressed that a board member would not let friendship be a barrier or judgment. But not you.

Judgment as a board member isn't exactly your strong suit, is it, Maureen?

Well you'll be gone soon enough. This is just a reminder of why it's not just folks in reform who can't stand you.

Well at least for once she isn't blabbing online about what was discussed behind closed doors about this matter. That shows a slight improvement in judgment.

If this was Mrs. Sullivan, would she not be revealing what happened during the closed session part of the meeting?

If this is Mrs. Sullivan and she is not revealing what happened one of two things has happened, she has learned her lesson or what happened in closed session was not that scandalous.

Not revealing what was discussed is the fig-leaf she is hiding behind; otherwise she would be the only possibility to consider. But that fig-leaf is even smaller than she thinks.

Her overall hostility and contempt are the DNA of every post and easily traced to their soon-to-be-gone owner.

GlassHouses- are you suggesting Kids First should have given preferential treatment to someone you identify as their friend? Not giving preferential treatment is exactly what Kid First is about and this appears to be a case in point but as the matter was discussed in closed session no one knows what this about unless someone is leaking closed session information......

it shows how lame you people are that you think maureen sullivan is the only person who would ever be happy to see kids first get taken to the wood shed. i am only too happy to say that i am a person who watched what that board did to paula ohaus and i am gleeful at the prospect of them getting some payback. what goes around comes around, baby. judy paraded herself around like she was number one and then the board that was going to reappoint her instead fired her.ha ha ha. this ones for you, Paula!

everyone at the high school is talking about this story. they are shocked that judy finally got what's been coming to her for a long time. judy and ro walked around that school like they owned it. judy was an untouchable. and even though ro markle parked her butt in hoboken high school long after her own kids graduated, and made herself board president for many years, she still couldn't save judy. how much did ro know and ignore?

#thismeanswar. I looked it up and yes indeedy i am full of schadenfruede. kids first wants to set themselves and their friends up as examples of perfection, then they are going to have to choke on it when their below average skills and intelligence are out there on display.

anyone know if they also kicked judy out of the high school store in the lobby? does she get another few thousand dollars for always being in the store?

markle only had one friend so we know it's not going to be a friend of markle.

congratulations to Superintendent Mark Toback for taking on the mean girls!

CuriousGal how would you know what this is about? Were you in the closed session? Is someone leaking closed session information to you?

This is not about Ms. Burrell as a track coach. This is about Ms. Burrell as a teacher.

And I look forward to someone w/ some integrity who isn't on Mason's payroll and happens to live in town telling us all what happened. That isn't you curiouslyobtuseedgewatergal.

Has she been sacked as teacher? I thought the story was about her coaching position.

How would you know any way, you were not even at the meeting.

This is not about Ms. Burrell as a track coach. This is about Ms. Burrell as a teacher. The decision to not reappoint Ms. Burrell centers on failure of meeting her responsibilities as a teacher.

Curious Gal, you seem to know the contents of a closed session Board meeting. How did that come to be?

Care to tell us who tipped you off?

Again CuriousGal where are you getting this information? How do you know what the matter is about? There is no public information about this matter so unless you were in the closed session meeting or someone is leaking closed session information you know nothing.

Does it really matter where she gets the information? She is not a trustworthy source. And if she is getting it from someone who is leaking the internal deliberations of the BOE's closed meeting, would you trust that person either? Seems to me if that is how she is getting her information, we have one completely untrustworthy person telling another completely untrustworthy person stuff and both of them are going to spin, twist & distort things as much as possible to suit their particular agendas.

This is not about Ms. Burrell as a track coach. This is about Ms. Burrell as a teacher. The decision to not reappoint Ms. Burrell centers on failure of meeting her responsibilities as a teacher. In addition to Ms. Burrell's non-reappointments for coaching and extra curricula activities, there were additional sanctions against her that were made during this week's Board of Education meeting.

take the blinkers off horse. it's all about a teacher.

Mr. Da Horsey, journalism is the first rough draft of history. Patch did a fine job of the initial reporting of this story. But I'm surprised the last line didn't stir your interest as a faux journalist.

found the agenda on the district website:
http://hoboken.k12.nj.us/hoboken/BOARD%20OF%20EDUCATION/Agendas%20and%20Minutes/2011-12/06-12-12%20Agenda%20for%20Public%20Meeting.pdf

give a hint. what are we looking for?

Isn't there anything for you to do in Secaucus?

Wow tburns were you in the closed session in someone's pocket? That's quite a magic trick. Or is someone leaking closed session information to you too? As a former board member I would expect you of all people to respect the confidentiality of any employee or personnel matter discussed in closed session. Until this matter (whatever it is) is made public there is no public information to discuss. You are speculating and appear to be defaming a district employee by spreading rumors. I wonder what Gary Enrico, the head of the union, would think about your little contribution here tonight.

Hey, a-hole. Greg's dad passed away and he's with his family.

How about giving up the sauce? You are an evil witch.

Again GlassHouse whatever happened happened in closed session. You have no information or you shouldn't unless someone is leaking closed session information. There is no public information about what happened.

By your word:

-Ms Burrell was underperforming.
-She was not renewed, despite possible friendships on the board.

What part of that is anyone supposed to explain or apologize for?

just want is your point, exactly? if someone deserved to lose their position, then they should lose their position, period, regardless of who appointed them. why all the effort to try and turn this into some big evil and mysterious conspiracy theory?

also, i have no idea what happened behind closed doors at that meeting. but you obviously think you do, so why don't you just tell us? c'mon, out with it. what are you afraid of? just say it.

Ohaus decided to have the discussion in public. From Dr. Toback's letter, "... Mrs. Ohaus received what is commonly referred to as a RICE notice. The RICE notice allows employees to determine if any discussion with the BoE regarding her employment is public or private. Her written request was to make the discussion public."
http://hoboken.patch.com/articles/students-pack-boe-meeting-to-protest-alleged-treatment-of-theatre-director-2#pdf-5646852

This is not about Ms. Burrell as a track coach. This is about Ms. Burrell as a teacher. The decision to not reappoint Ms. Burrell centers on failure of meeting her responsibilities as a teacher. In addition to Ms. Burrell's non-reappointments for coaching and extra curricula activities, there were additional sanctions against her that were made during this week's Board of Education meeting. These additional sanctions included RESOLUTION NO. GP-0011-11-12 (APPROVAL OF WITHHOLDING OF INCREMENT). "that the Board of Education, upon recommendation of the Superintendent, recommends withholding the increment of TCH.HS.05 for the 2012-2013 school year because of inadequate performance as a teacher. TCH.HS.05’s salary for the 2012-2013 school year will be $90,831.00 plus longevity $14,250.00" (p. 16 of the June 12, 2012 Board of Education Agenda).

The smell of this story, top to bottom is bad. From the very first letter to the last bit of bile from the usual haters.

Interesting how the vile Judy bashing posts go right up, while responses languish in moderation. I guess character-assassination flies over here, if you're assassinating 'properly'. Glasshouses is calling for a "public execution"? You posted THAT?

Glasshouses Sullivan, you need help. The Republican Committee has seen what the BoE had to put up with, now they get it. No doubt you will be bashing them online and print before long, because I understand they rejected your 'leadership' overwhelmingly. If you voted for yourself (one assumes) that means you got 3 actual voes out of... 60 or so. Is that why you are so angry here?

Greg's dad passed away and he's with his family. It wouldn't surprise me if you already knew that.

Mr. Da Horsey-- there are no haters here. Just trying to get the truth out. Many of us can't rely on faux journalists like yourself. Didn't you say earlier in this thread "Didn't see anything about a teacher aspect in this story. "-- well, this story is ALL ABOUT her being a TEACHER. So, coaching got taken away from her and her yearly increment was taken away. What did she do? Doesn't anyone want to know?
"Superintendent Mark Toback, in an email, said he couldn't say much about the situation. "-- that doesn't spark the faux journalist in you? I want to know why she still has a job in this district....

Congratulations to the BoE's Maureen Sullivan, I mean Frank Sinatra, no GlassHouses. You managed to take a private personnel issue and leak it so you can feel better about yourself.

Kudos to Maureen Sullivan, Lane "prosbus" and Kimmy CG of Edgewater with a hat tip to tburns for your out of control behavior.

Surely Hoboken's teachers will be getting behind your campaign for Oland/Markovitch now.

Mr. Da Horsey- do you feel you have an adequate understanding concerning the details of this story? As a journalist, have you finished conducting your due diligence on this story? Because I think the other shoe is going to fall soon on Ms. Burrell and I would prefer my favorite journalist not get scooped on this one. What say you big guy? Is this a "Horse" worthy story?

The parents of the children in Ms. Burrell's class deserve a CLEAR explanation about this situation.

CG, now that you live in Edgewater, kindly keep your nose out of our schools.

Twinkie up, cg. Go bother a different town.

The posting of a doctored up graphic by bully blogger GA does not necessarily prove residency. A live link would have great credibility.

Here you go, prosbus. A LIVE link.

http://www.spokeo.com/search?q=Kim+Cardinal&sns10=t32&global=true#New+Jersey:14876929411

No, I did not 'doctor' anything for TMW.

Kim Cardinal, you will provide the source information (with links) for your attacks on a black HHS teacher, Ms. Burrell. You claim it is "publicly available" and I SAY it is NOT. I say that you have obtained information in an unethical manner to smear the reputation of a black teacher and it does not exist.

You will provide the source to 'prove' your allegations or face a civil rights complaint against you for targeting an African American public school teacher with a false, vicious smear campaign.

GA, please prove the information is not publicly available. I heard it just the other day at the grocery store on Washington Avenue.

Also, keep in mind that it IS a fact that Ms. Burrell did not attend dozens of meetings of her special education class. This is not false. This is true. This is why an increment was held back on her because of "inadequate performance as a teacher." -- nothing false or vicious about that statement.

CG, you have wasted quite enough of my time. You are unworthy of any of it.
Since pied piper has already provided that explanation for you, you simply want to repeat your smear ad nauseum. That's your M.O. I will not provide further opportunities for you to do so. Do not address me further, skank.

GA-- back to name calling??? Bully blogger much be getting frustrated.

"GA, please prove the information is not publicly available. I heard it just the other day at the grocery store on Washington Avenue. "

Seriously, did you ever even live in Hoboken? Washington Street is in Hoboken, and has many bodegas, but "the grocery store on Washington Street" doesn't make a whole lot of sense either. The nearest Washington Avenue I could find was in Cliffside Park, which borders Edgewater.

Also, if you released the information, and people are now talking about it (probably a discussion between you and Prosbus, or you just talking out loud), you don't get to claim an exemption because it is public information. Only if it was generally known BEFORE you released it.

TMW, see my earlier post, there is a Washington Ave in cliffside park which borders edgewater.

Thank you, Kim. Making statements like this prove to everyone's satisfaction that you are indeed a paid political operative.

Everyone else is blogging in realtime. There are no plans to reveal "more about this in the next few weeks."

But for paid political operatives, life is a never-ending campaign. You're stupid to reveal that you and the other ops are working on a "project" to further assassinate Ms Burrell's character in the hopes of mud-splashing KF in the process. But I guess you can't help yourself.

Why don't you consider giving some of your free time to being a mother to your child?

ThisMeansWar- Hoboken teacher, and Hoboken Housing Authority member Ms. Judith Burrell's (a.k.a. TCH.HS.05) professional character doesn't need assassinating....it simply requires full exposure.

So I'll take that as a 'no' on focusing on motherhood for once. Not surprised.

But what possible relevance does this have in Edgewater where you live? http://i46.tinypic.com/zvvgqq.jpg

ThisMeansWar- posting doctored graphics does not prove very much and it doesn't really divert attention away from the irresponsible, unprofessional, and unethical issues surrounding Ms. Burrell.

Prosbus and CG:
1. The graphics are not doctored. You know that.
2. What has Judith Burrell done. Please provide legal sources of the information which you have provided. Rumors (heard in closed board meeting, or expect to hear something next week, kicking up a dead thread) lead to either illegal acquisition of information, a known minority tactic, or just spreading rumors and lies, another known tactic.
3. What do you expect to get out of this? Even if Burrell steps down from the housing authority for whatever reason, Carmelo's buddy Branco will not be inserted, you will just get to feign righteous indignation when he gets passed over a third time.