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Hinsdale" , "AMiller@westwindsortwp.com" , "JBahree@westwindsortwp.com" , "LGeevers@westwindsortwp.com" , "AHamilton@westwindsortwp.com" , "VManzari@westwindsortwp.com" , "HMarathe@westwindsortwp.com" , "Kaish, Michele" , "Cheng, Isaac" , "Herts, Carol" , "Ho, Louisa" , "Juliana, Rachel" , "Krug, Dana" , "Whitfield, Martin" , "Aderhold, David" Subject: RE: June 27, 2018 Discussion of Class III issue on Facebook Thread-Topic: June 27, 2018 Discussion of Class III issue on Facebook X-ASG-Orig-Subj: RE: June 27, 2018 Discussion of Class III issue on Facebook Thread-Index: AQHUDtnAlwScqgpBH0uF5bYg5N/fd6R3j7cAgBbYooCAAK9MNg== Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2018 18:41:01 +0000 Message-ID: <9D4FC89B84722343BD81158A59E0DADF014BD22A93@wwp-exchange3.westwindsor.k12.nj.us> References: <20180628121541.GA28609@uli> <20180629142632.GA28054@uli>,<20180714031932.GA25231@uli> In-Reply-To: <20180714031932.GA25231@uli> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [173.71.125.195] Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_c968f125-510e-4cef-859a-4c06a5c5c3c3_" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Barracuda-Connect: esa1.hc2742-60.iphmx.com[216.71.142.71] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1531593664 X-Barracuda-URL: https://10.11.13.198:443/cgi-mod/mark.cgi X-Virus-Scanned: by bsmtpd at westwindsortwp.local X-Barracuda-Scan-Msg-Size: 18146 X-Barracuda-BRTS-Status: 1 X-Barracuda-Spam-Score: 0.00 X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: No, SCORE=0.00 using global scores of TAG_LEVEL=1000.0 QUARANTINE_LEVEL=2.5 KILL_LEVEL=4.0 tests=HTML_MESSAGE X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.2, rules version 3.2.3.53653 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.00 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message Return-Path: anthony.fleres@ww-p.org X-MS-Exchange-Organization-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Jul 2018 18:41:06.3912 (UTC) X-MS-Exchange-Forest-ArrivalHubServer: WWTExch2012.Westwindsortwp.local X-MS-Exchange-Organization-OriginalClientIPAddress: 10.11.13.198 X-MS-Exchange-Organization-OriginalServerIPAddress: 10.11.13.52 X-MS-Exchange-Organization-AuthSource: WWTExch2012.Westwindsortwp.local X-MS-Exchange-Organization-AuthAs: Anonymous X-MS-Exchange-Organization-MessageDirectionality: Incoming X-MS-Exchange-Organization-Cross-Premises-Headers-Processed: WWTExch2012.Westwindsortwp.local X-MS-Exchange-Organization-OriginalSize: 22220 X-MS-Exchange-Forest-MessageScope: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 X-MS-Exchange-Organization-MessageScope: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 X-MS-Exchange-Organization-HygienePolicy: Standard X-MS-Exchange-Organization-Recipient-Limit-Verified: True X-MS-Exchange-Organization-Disclaimer-Hash: 0935327025034fd0101c9873cd05fde337eb3fa17336b7888bd981da5743cd3f X-MS-Exchange-Forest-RulesExecuted: WWTExch2012 X-MS-Exchange-Organization-Rules-Execution-History: OPRA Disclaimer Footer%%%Spam --_c968f125-510e-4cef-859a-4c06a5c5c3c3_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mr. Hinsdale, Concerning your request for a response to the interactions among elected me= mbers of the West Windsor Township government, speaking for the WW-P Board = of Education, it would be inappropriate to comment. Further, there is no ma= tter before the board of education for us to enable or inhibit. Separately, I would like to clarify the events. At the June 11 WW Council m= eeting, it was decided to invite Dr. Aderhold to a subsequent meeting to di= scuss the use of Class III officers in WW-P schools. It was also agreed tha= t council members would send any questions they may have on the Shared Serv= ices Agreement to Dr. Aderhold, so he could be better prepared to respond t= o them. I assume you would agree that this was a reasonable course of actio= n. As Dr. Aderhold stated in his June 22 email to the council members, to save= time at the meeting, he was attaching written responses to a number of the= ir questions but felt some could be better answered during the presentation= . As I recall the June 25 meeting, Ms. Hamilton=92s concerns were discussed= by both Dr. Aderhold and Lt. Lee. Since the original intent was to address= all of the questions on Monday, for you to characterize =93to be discussed= on Monday=94 as being nonresponsive was simply wrong and misleading. To quote one of my earlier emails to you, =93the issue of school security a= nd student safety is a complicated and, currently an emotionally-charged to= pic, with groups of well-meaning individuals offering different, sometimes = conflicting, solutions.=94 Going forward, let=92s assume that all parties, = especially those we don=92t agree with, are at least acting in good faith. Anthony Fleres President, Board of Education West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District ________________________________________ From: John K. Hinsdale [hin@alma.com] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2018 11:19 PM To: AMiller@westwindsortwp.com; JBahree@westwindsortwp.com; LGeevers@westwi= ndsortwp.com; AHamilton@westwindsortwp.com; VManzari@westwindsortwp.com; HM= arathe@westwindsortwp.com; Fleres, Anthony; Kaish, Michele; Cheng, Isaac; H= erts, Carol; Ho, Louisa; Juliana, Rachel; Krug, Dana; Zhong, Yu; Whitfield,= Martin; Aderhold, David Subject: Re: June 27, 2018 Discussion of Class III issue on Facebook Hi all, I'd like to follow up on my FYI Email below from two Fridays ago (6/29) abo= ut the harshly and unfairly critical online post from the Mayor of 6/27. L= ast time I wrote: > This Email is for your information only. It is not a complaint or any ot= her kind of request for action and response is entirely optional. This time it is a complaint and I am requesting a response (from the School= District). I call your attention to a comment from the Mayor, in the middle of page 8 = (discussion is attached again for your convenience): Comment from Hemant Marathe at June 27, 2018, 5:19pm "Ayesha Krishnan Hamilton as a council women ... You were offered an opport= unity to comment on the agreement twice in writing and not a single comment= was received from you." To date I had taken the basis for this criticism to be credible, but it now= appears actually to have been made up by the Mayor, something I'm now used= to. However in this case the School District appears also to have contrib= uted to the circumstances that allow this, and this is a real problem for m= e. Today I received, by way of a response to an OPRA document request, an Emai= l Q&A between the Township and District preceding the 6/25 Council meeting.= The 6/25 meeting was the one where Superintendent Aderhold spoke, and at = which Council had yet more Q&A about the Class III program. I've attached that here as two files, Dr. Aderhold's 6/22 Email and its Q&A= attachment. At the very end of the Q&A from WW Council, is the District's= (non-)response to the inquiry about bias training: [Q. from Hamilton] "2. Detailed description of the type of training that the WWPD and/or schoo= l district will be providing to Class III officers to address issues of unc= onscious bias. Will any kind of training be provided to address these issue= s and what will the scope of that training be?" And the (non-)response from the District: "To be discussed on Monday." [i.e., 6/25/18 Council meeting] As the Mayor was included in this pre-meeting Q&A discussion there is no po= ssible basis for his criticism of the Council member's waiting until the me= eting to pose her question: it was simply not answered at all in advance by= the District. Again, I am used to this kind of thing from the Mayor, but I cannot tolerat= e its enablement by the District, to whose care I entrust my kids every day= . I need a bit more rectitude in that arena. I would like some response from someone in the District (I don't care who, = any Board member, Superintendent, etc.) as to what you think of this, and w= hether you think it is OK. If I don't hear back I am going to assume you a= re all OK with this. I hope it is clear why this is a problem. I am making this request not as a WW taxpayer but as a parent with kids in = the WW-P schools. Looking forward to hearing back, John Hinsdale On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 10:26:32AM -0400, John K. Hinsdale wrote: > > To: > Members of West Windsor Town Council (5) > Mayor of West Windsor, Hemant Marathe > Members of West Windsor-Plainsboro Board of Education (9) > WW-P Superintendent of Schools, David Aderhold, Ed.D. > > From: John Hinsdale > > Dear Members of Council, Mayor Marathe, Members of the School Board, and = Dr. Aderhold -- > > Following up on my message yesterday, attached is an updated version of t= hat online discussion. I send it because it includes new commentary from t= he Mayor on the topic in that closed, members-only forum. This would appea= r to be the final version of the discussion, now that the unelected/unappoi= nted private citizen who solely moderates the forum has blocked access to f= urther contributions to the thread. > > You may have heard of recent court decisions saying that it is not OK for= a government executive to conduct discussions on social media that block l= egitimate citizen contributors: > > https://knightcolumbia.org/content/knight-institute-v-trump-lawsuit-chall= enging-president-trumps-blocking-critics-twitter > > This was in the news with respect to President Trump blocking users on Tw= itter whose opinions he did not like. I believe the same thing is happenin= g here. Latecomers to the discussion (maybe they were away on vacation) ca= nnot contribute. In any case, any access to the forum itself is controlled= arbitrarily. It is also replete with fake accounts which post in the same= sub-threads as the Mayor's. > > I'm not sure that this tainting of the democratic process could or should= affect the decision making that needs to occur with respect to the Class I= II program. Perhaps it should. But I will say that all of this will cease= to be a problem once y'all start involving everyone like you're supposed t= o, instead of ramming this through during the quiet summer months, which it= would appear are not so quiet. > > Thank you for your time and consideration. This Email is for your inform= ation only. It is not a complaint or any other kind of request for action = and response is entirely optional. > > Sincerely, > > John Hinsdale > 38 Quaker Road, West Windsor > > > > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 08:15:41AM -0400, John K. Hinsdale wrote: > > > > To: > > Members of West Windsor Town Council (5) > > Mayor of West Windsor, Hemant Marathe > > Members of West Windsor-Plainsboro Board of Education (9) > > WW-P Superintendent of Schools, David Aderhold, Ed.D. > > > > From: John Hinsdale > > > > > > Dear Members of Council, Mayor Marathe, Members of the School Board, an= d Dr. Aderhold -- > > > > For your information, attached is a PDF file of a discussion going on F= acebook since 9:40am yesterday, concerning the Class III officers issue. I= send it in the hope that it will be useful to you. > > > > > > Sincerely, > > > > John Hinsdale > > 38 Quaker Road, West Windsor > > Please be advised that the Township of West Windsor is subject to the New J= ersey Open Public Records Act. As such, any email sent or received by the T= ownship may be subject to a records request. --_c968f125-510e-4cef-859a-4c06a5c5c3c3_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Mr. Hinsdale,
 
Concerning your request for a response to the interactions among elected me= mbers of the West Windsor Township government, speaking for the WW-P Board = of Education, it would be inappropriate to comment. Further, there is no ma= tter before the board of education for us to enable or inhibit.


Separately, I would like to clarify the events. At the June 11 WW Council m= eeting, it was decided to invite Dr. Aderhold to a subsequent meeting = to discuss the use of Class III officers in WW-P schools. It was also&= nbsp;agreed that council members would send any questions they may have on the Shared Services Agreement to Dr. Aderhold, = so he could be better prepared to respond to them. I assume you would agree= that this was a reasonable course of action.
 
As Dr. Aderhold stated in his June 22 email to the council members, to save= time at the meeting, he was attaching written responses to a number of the= ir questions but felt some could be better answered during the presentation= . As I recall the June 25 meeting, Ms. Hamilton=92s concerns were discussed by both Dr. Aderhold and Lt. Lee.= Since the original intent was to address all of the questions on Monday, f= or you to characterize =93to be discussed on Monday=94 as being nonresponsi= ve was simply wrong and misleading.

 

To quote one of my earlier emails to you, =93the issue of school securit= y and student safety is a complicated and, currently an emotionally-charged topic, with groups of well-meaning individuals offe= ring different, sometimes conflicting, solutions.=94 Going forward, let=92s= assume that all parties, especially those we don=92t agree with, are at le= ast acting in good faith.

 


Anthony Fleres
President, Board of Education
West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District

________________________________________
From: John K. Hinsdale [hin@alma.com]
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2018 11:19 PM
To: AMiller@westwindsortwp.com; JBahree@westwindsortwp.com; LGeevers@westwi= ndsortwp.com; AHamilton@westwindsortwp.com; VManzari@westwindsortwp.com; HM= arathe@westwindsortwp.com; Fleres, Anthony; Kaish, Michele; Cheng, Isaac; H= erts, Carol; Ho, Louisa; Juliana, Rachel; Krug, Dana; Zhong, Yu; Whitfield, Martin; Aderhold, David
Subject: Re: June 27, 2018 Discussion of Class III issue on Facebook

Hi all,

I'd like to follow up on my FYI Email below from two Fridays ago (6/29) abo= ut the harshly and unfairly critical online post from the Mayor of 6/27.&nb= sp; Last time I wrote:

> This Email is for your information only.  It is not a complaint o= r any other kind of request for action and response is entirely optional.
This time it is a complaint and I am requesting a response (from the School= District).

I call your attention to a comment from the Mayor, in the middle of page 8 = (discussion is attached again for your convenience):

Comment from Hemant Marathe at June 27, 2018, 5:19pm
"Ayesha Krishnan Hamilton as a council women ... You were offered an o= pportunity to comment on the agreement twice in writing and not a single co= mment was received from you."

To date I had taken the basis for this criticism to be credible, but it now= appears actually to have been made up by the Mayor, something I'm now used= to.  However in this case the School District appears also to have co= ntributed to the circumstances that allow this, and this is a real problem for me.

Today I received, by way of a response to an OPRA document request, an Emai= l Q&A between the Township and District preceding the 6/25 Council meet= ing.  The 6/25 meeting was the one where Superintendent Aderhold spoke= , and at which Council had yet more Q&A about the Class III program.

I've attached that here as two files, Dr. Aderhold's 6/22 Email and its Q&a= mp;A attachment.  At the very end of the Q&A from WW Council, is t= he District's (non-)response to the inquiry about bias training:

[Q. from Hamilton]
"2. Detailed description of the type of training that the WWPD and/or = school district will be providing to Class III officers to address issues o= f unconscious bias. Will any kind of training be provided to address these = issues and what will the scope of that training be?"

And the (non-)response from the District:
"To be discussed on Monday." [i.e., 6/25/18 Council meeting]

As the Mayor was included in this pre-meeting Q&A discussion there is n= o possible basis for his criticism of the Council member's waiting until th= e meeting to pose her question: it was simply not answered at all in advanc= e by the District.

Again, I am used to this kind of thing from the Mayor, but I cannot tolerat= e its enablement by the District, to whose care I entrust my kids every day= .  I need a bit more rectitude in that arena.

I would like some response from someone in the District (I don't care who, = any Board member, Superintendent, etc.) as to what you think of this, and w= hether you think it is OK.  If I don't hear back I am going to assume = you are all OK with this.  I hope it is clear why this is a problem.

I am making this request not as a WW taxpayer but as a parent with kids in = the WW-P schools.

Looking forward to hearing back,

        John Hinsdale

On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 10:26:32AM -0400, John K. Hinsdale wrote:
>
> To:
> Members of West Windsor Town Council (5)
> Mayor of West Windsor, Hemant Marathe
> Members of West Windsor-Plainsboro Board of Education (9)
> WW-P Superintendent of Schools, David Aderhold, Ed.D.
>
> From: John Hinsdale
>
> Dear Members of Council, Mayor Marathe, Members of the School Board, a= nd Dr. Aderhold --
>
> Following up on my message yesterday, attached is an updated version o= f that online discussion.  I send it because it includes new commentar= y from the Mayor on the topic in that closed, members-only forum.  Thi= s would appear to be the final version of the discussion, now that the unelected/unappointed private citizen who solely = moderates the forum has blocked access to further contributions to the thre= ad.
>
> You may have heard of recent court decisions saying that it is not OK = for a government executive to conduct discussions on social media that bloc= k legitimate citizen contributors:
>
> https://knightcolumbia.org/content/knight-institute-v-trump-lawsuit-ch= allenging-president-trumps-blocking-critics-twitter
>
> This was in the news with respect to President Trump blocking users on= Twitter whose opinions he did not like.  I believe the same thing is = happening here.  Latecomers to the discussion (maybe they were away on= vacation) cannot contribute.  In any case, any access to the forum itself is controlled arbitrarily.  It is also rep= lete with fake accounts which post in the same sub-threads as the Mayor's.<= br> >
> I'm not sure that this tainting of the democratic process could or sho= uld affect the decision making that needs to occur with respect to the Clas= s III program.  Perhaps it should.  But I will say that all of th= is will cease to be a problem once y'all start involving everyone like you're supposed to, instead of ramming this throug= h during the quiet summer months, which it would appear are not so quiet. >
> Thank you for your time and consideration.  This Email is for you= r information only.  It is not a complaint or any other kind of reques= t for action and response is entirely optional.
>
>       Sincerely,
>
>       John Hinsdale
>       38 Quaker Road, West Windsor
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 08:15:41AM -0400, John K. Hinsdale wrote:
> >
> > To:
> > Members of West Windsor Town Council (5)
> > Mayor of West Windsor, Hemant Marathe
> > Members of West Windsor-Plainsboro Board of Education (9)
> > WW-P Superintendent of Schools, David Aderhold, Ed.D.
> >
> > From: John Hinsdale
> >
> >
> > Dear Members of Council, Mayor Marathe, Members of the School Boa= rd, and Dr. Aderhold --
> >
> > For your information, attached is a PDF file of a discussion goin= g on Facebook since 9:40am yesterday, concerning the Class III officers iss= ue.  I send it in the hope that it will be useful to you.
> >
> >
> >         Sincerely,
> >
> >         John Hinsdale
> >         38 Quaker Road, W= est Windsor
>
>

Please be advised that the Township of West Windsor is subject to the New J= ersey Open Public Records Act. As such, any email sent or received by the T= ownship may be subject to a records request. --_c968f125-510e-4cef-859a-4c06a5c5c3c3_--