The changes went into effect on Monday, Jan. 28.
The new Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District's new Entry Door Access Protocol was implemented on Monday, Jan. 28, according to the MERS website. An Emergency Management Team review by district administration and the Manalapan Police Department discussed and reviewed the security of entry into schools and came up with the following to ensure better safety: 1. No visitors may enter the building with students during arrival. 2. To enter the school after the start of the school day, all visitors must have a prior appointment. The names of all individuals with appointments will be given to the office personnel prior to the start of the school day. All visitors without an appointment must contact the office approximately 20 minutes …
“To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” -Theodore Roosevelt
School is about teaching more than English, math and science. It is also about building character, modeling behavior and nurturing all children. “What we do today and what we do after today honors the children of Newtown, but more importantly it honors the children in our schools today,” said Dr. Maurice Elias, director of clinical training at the Rutgers University Department of Psychology, a nationally recognized expert in community and preventive psychology and school intervention. Elias was the keynote speaker at a New Jersey School Boards Association forum, “Safe and Secure Schools: Perspectives after Newtown,” at The College of New Jersey on Friday morning. Hundreds of parents, educators, school board members and law enforcement …
The public hearing is scheduled for January 15, 2013 at 7 p.m.
The Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District Board of Education has scheduled a public hearing on school security within the district. All parents are invited to come out and discuss how to address security within Manalapan-Englishtown schools with the district administration and the Board of Education in the wake of the Newtown, Conn. shooting. The district has been proactive in increasing security presence at the schools daily, but wants to hear what parents have to say. The public hearing on school security is scheduled for January 15, 2013 at 7 p.m. within the Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School auditorium. An overview of the school district's emergency management plan will be presented by the Chair of the district's Emergency …
Inbar Shalev Robbins
11:18 am on Tuesday, January 29, 2013
As a parent of 2 children in the district I am shocked and outraged that information like this is being published. The district and many of its parents are working effortlessly to ensure that our kids and school are the safest they can possibly be. By publishing information like this, you are compromising that very same safety. Information about the change in procedures was sent home to all … more ›