A Reformy Rumble in Montclair
Doesn't look like a very reformy town to me...
Most folks who know Montclair, NJ wouldn't think of it as a hotbed of dissent. This integrated, bedroom community strives to be known as a hip outpost full of ex-New Yorkers turned suburbanites.
But it looks like Montcliar is becoming the latest front in the war to bring reformyness to the Jersey 'burbs: [all emphases mine]
But it looks like Montcliar is becoming the latest front in the war to bring reformyness to the Jersey 'burbs: [all emphases mine]
An animated exchange between two Board of Education members and the leader of Montclair's teacher union has prompted a formal complaint from at least one of the parents who witnessed the incident Monday night.
According to witnesses, board members Tanya Coke and David Deutsch approached Montclair Education Association President Gayl Shepard during the Board of Education's marathon public meeting in the Montclair High School auditorium and began a conversation that bystanders said soon became loud and heated.
"It was ugly," said David Herron, who was one of several people nearby who