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8/18/2013

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In an effort to be transparent the Lakewood BOE attorney responds to Mr. Inzelbuch claims posted on the scoop.

Below is the Lakewood Board of Education's official response, to the article that appeared on the Lakewood Scoop.

It was sent to TLS, yet Lazer Hasenfeld, owner and editor of that website REFUSED to post it or  acknowledge it altogether. 

Instead suggested that the BOE debate MI on these issues.

The public has a right to know that TLS is feeding them pure propaganda.
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PRESS RELEASE FROM
LAKEWOOD BOARD OF EDUCATION
On August 8, 2013, an article that appeared on the Lakewood Scoop website entitled, “Following Multiple Lawsuits, School District to Approve Services for 17 Special Needs Children”.   


The Lakewood Board of Education wishes to set the record straight because that article (which still appears on the site) is filled with misinformation, exaggerations and gross distortions of the truth.  First, the “victory” to which the article refers involved a preliminary decision by an Administrative Law Judge that a preschool student should be educated, for the time being, in the program identified in his Individualized Education Plan, rather than in a different school during the ensuing litigation.  While the article refers to a “victory” for the parents, the case is by no means over despite the suggestion in the article to the contrary.  In fact, the case has not even been scheduled for trial.  Moreover, the only reason that the District was proposing a different placement for the child was solely because the Department of Education, through the County Office, directed that the District no longer place students in that unapproved school.  


The article also states that since that decision there have been countless lawsuits filed on behalf of classified and non-classified students in Lakewood.  While it is true that the District is embroiled in a significant amount of litigation with these students, all of whom are represented by Mr. Inzelbuch, the fact remains that the District’s arguments have not been “categorically rejected.”   In fact, no final decision has been rendered in any of those cases –most of which have not even gone to a trial on the merits.    The suggestion that the District has lost those cases is patently false.  Finally, the article states that there is a “change of direction on the horizon” for the Board because seventeen (17) students were approved at its August 9, 2013 meeting for placements in unapproved and sectarian programs.  However, if the author had read the agenda item carefully, he/she would have seen that the Board was reapproving students in their current placements.  Therefore, the Board of Education was simply ratifying and continuing the placements of the students listed on the agenda, which were made by the Board and/or Child Study team in prior years.   In short, the Board of Education’s most valuable asset is its children, both public and non-public students alike.  The Board is deeply committed to providing all children with the highest quality education possible in the appropriate setting.  For the author to suggest otherwise is disingenuous, self-serving and insulting.
15 Comments
Stephen
8/18/2013 01:09:21 am

Why do they feel a need to respond??

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mister softeeeee
8/18/2013 06:45:56 am

why is TLS pro inzelbuch all of a sudden??

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carl Fink
8/18/2013 10:45:41 am

Why is the lakewood times posting everyones garbage?? Does HH have anything positive to say? Is the only thing Hershel can think of negative?? Is that what u want to potray lakewood as in The Lakewood Times??? Hershel take your garbage someplace else maybe to edison or maybe to deal? We don't need all this garbage here in town!!!

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layedgeyer
8/19/2013 01:06:39 am

Herschel,

Don't complain.Years ago when TLS was busy promoting YOU they didn't allow any comments against you either.
(I know because I tried)You also censor your comments...

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Board of Ed Teacher
8/19/2013 02:48:13 am

1. I agree TLS should post the response.
2. I disagree with the Board responding, makes them looking very childish, which they are.
3. We can all look at the public documents and see for ourselves that MI has never lost a case to the BOE.
4.The letter doesn't how the facts are distorted, you can;t just respond the facts are distorted and not say what the fats actually are. Childish. Fishy. Seemingly False.
5. Tls is scared of too much "hock" on his site, the clientel he's catering to are not the blog type rather more towards the news, opinion type. Tls needs to attract traffic as it is Eli's business, that video of Michael was something which was different and def traffic attractive. Should the BOE have sent their 'side of the story' to TLS beforehand, I believe he would have posted theirs and than not posted MI's response. I believe this from seeing how he has covered the BOE stories in the past (only posting BOE's side of the story and never MI's, this time happens to be MI started first, which was unusual of MI to go to the news).
6. I don't necessarily agree with TLS's way of dealing with this , I definitely don't agree with my BOE's way of dealing with this, very low. very very low. I would love if Hershel can cover the true facts of what is going on with the BOE law firms. It is very simple to cover, read the agendas and you can see how much they are getting paid. Speak to me or some parents and see how the needs of the children are treated by the Board and Superintendent.

-BOE Lakewood Teacher of 9 years

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Today
8/19/2013 12:46:57 pm

Well today Inzelbuch delivered another knock out blow to the board in another decision proving once again that the board does not know what they are doing
Read the judge"s decision --no 1/2 truths there

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go hh
8/21/2013 06:55:24 am

i wrote a comment on the scoop regarding this and he locked me out of the site. shame on him

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Tech Support
8/21/2013 08:47:57 pm

If you google how to change my public ip you will get instructions on how to change it and your back in business.

If it's to complicated for you, search for 'hide my ip" and you will be able to go to his site through another site.

He did it to me and i was back on his site in no time.

Good Luck

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Anonymous
8/21/2013 10:43:23 am

If tls is pro Inzelbuch does it mean they're pro catapult now?

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LZ
8/21/2013 02:26:35 pm

shame on the lakewood poop for blocking out IP of ppl who dear comment against the owner

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Tech Support
8/21/2013 08:47:40 pm

If you google how to change my public ip you will get instructions on how to change it and your back in business.

If it's to complicated for you, search for 'hide my ip" and you will be able to go to his site through another site.

He did it to me and i was back on his site in no time.

Good Luck

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lakewoodresident
8/22/2013 10:40:52 pm

The "scoop" believes in censorship ,dare you make a comment that is not to its liking you will get "moderated " and if often enough blocked altogether . I understand the need to keep personal attacks and offensive language off ,but to just censor things because its not in line with the thinking of others is disgusting .What happened to freedom of expression ,when you only get one side of the picture that equates to how communism and other dictatorships operate to keep the people misinformed .So the "scoop" is nothing but one sided trash in my eyes

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Lisa Ferrara link
11/27/2013 02:56:07 am

You are 100% correct. The Lakewood Scoop is very much against freedom of expression, as it serves as the propaganda vehicle for the interests of the Vaad and the Township of Lakewood. Even if you state your views the most non-confrontational way possible, if your opinion does not support their agenda (or worse, if it questions what they are presenting as "fact") they will remove them and then ban you from commenting on the site.

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Carl Fink
8/29/2013 09:50:55 pm

The comment above using my name was not posted by me. Personally, I like the times for it's open views, The scoop on the other hand is censored to incite hate.

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Carl Fink
8/29/2013 09:52:12 pm

Please email me before posting anything using my name as a title.

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