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MARCH 410, 2015

Eastern edges Shawnee, 61-58

Parents cite lack


of communication
from Voorhees
School District, BOE
By ZANE CLARK
The Sun
The meeting room of the Feb.
25 Voorhees Township Board of
Education was filled with parents, with almost all who spoke
looking for answers about the
Partnership for Assessment of
Readiness for College and Careers exam and chastising the
board for not having answered
such questions sooner.
PARCC is the new statewide
standardized test being administered to all students in grades
three through 11 throughout
March, replacing the former standardized New Jersey Assessment
of Skills and Knowledge test for
lower grades and the High School
Proficiency Assessment for high
school students.
Based on the common core
set of educational standards, the
test is entirely computer based
and has given rise to a number of
controversies, the most prevalent
please see PARENTS, page 11

ZANE CLARK/The Sun

The Shawnee Renegades hosted the Eastern Vikings in boys varsity basketball on Feb. 23. The night ended with the Vikings edging
Shawnee, 61-58. Pictured is No. 4 Keithantonio Davis after going for a layup.

INSIDE THIS ISSUE


iPad initiative
Eastern BOE considers device
for each student. PAGE 5

Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Classified . . . . . . . . . . . . 1417
Editorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

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Voorhees Middle School


to present Shrek The Musical
Middle
School
Voorhees
Drama Club invites the public to
come to its Big Bright Beautiful
World and see the heartwarming
production of Shrek The Musical, on Friday, March 13 through
Sunday, March 15, at the VMS
Theater, 1000 Holly Oak Drive.
Shrek The Musical is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International.
Shrek The Musical has original music by Jeanine Tesorie
with lyrics by David LindsayAbaries. It is based on the Dreamworks Animation motion picture
and the book by William Steig. Attendees may recognize some of
the original characters created by
Mike Myers of Saturday Night
Live. Shrek the Musical is an
offbeat tale about unlikely companions. Shrek and Donkey join
in a quest to rescue Princess
Fiona to save her from the clutch-

es of the evil Farquaad and the


Dragon. This comedic tale of adventure is a wonderful production that the entire family will
love, so come see the show.
Show times are at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 13 and Saturday,
March 14. There is a family matinee on Saturday March 14 at 1
p.m. On Sunday, March 15, show
time is 3 p.m. Tickets are $12. All
seats are reserved. Senior citizens
are invited to watch this production free of charge on Sunday afternoon, March 15 courtesy of
PRIDE of the Voorhees Township
Education Association.
VMS Box Office hours are
Tuesdays and Thursdays in
March from 3-4:30 p.m. Tickets
are also available one hour prior
to each performance. For further
information, please call (856) 7952025 ext. 5410. For information on
group sales, please call (856) 4282990 ext. 4184 and leave a message.

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Broadway artists to offer


master classes to students
Chitty,
Cats,
JosephDreamcoat, Evita,
Crazy for You and Beauty and
the Beast.
Catherine Brunell (vocals) has
performed the title roles in
Broadways Mary Poppins and
Thoroughly Modern Millie and
played the role of Eponine in the
Broadway production of Les
Misrables. Brunell was twice
nominated for a Kevin Kline
Award for Best Actress for her
portrayals of Laurey in Oklahoma! and Eliza in My Fair
Lady at the St. Louis MUNY.
Peterson (acting) is a performer, educator and choreographer. Peterson played Enjolras in
the original Broadway production of Les Misrables. Peterson teaches theater at North Star
Academy in Newark, and served
as teaching artist for the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and
please see WORKSHOP, page 4

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By exclusive arrangement with


Voorhees Theatre Company,
Broadway teaching artists Julie
Barnes, Catherine Brunell and
Chris Peterson are conducting
musical theatre master classes 12
-6 p.m., April 18, at Osage School,
112 Somerdale Road, for students
ages 12 through 18. Families are
encouraged to attend.
Selected students will receive
one-on-one coaching in vocal,
dance and acting. All students
will work with instructors on material customized for the classes,
including scenes from Mary
Poppins, Voorhees Theatre Companys fall, all-age production.
Barnes (dance) is a veteran of
Broadway and London's West
End. Her Broadway credits include: Mary Poppins, The Little Mermaid and Chitty Chitty
Bang Bang. Barnes also performed in the first U.S. tour of
Spamalot and in the West End
productions of Oklahoma!,

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Ice hockey
seeks players
for spring
The Eastern Vikings Ice Hockey Club is looking for interested
players for the spring season
which starts in March and consists of 10 games. Games are
played at the
Voorhees Flyers Skate Zone.
Students
from Eastern High School and
Voorhees Middle School are eligible to play. For information on
registration and signups contact
rvigg@verizon.net.

BRIEFS

Practice SAT, ACT exams


set for March 8
Tutoring Club of Cherry
Hill/Voorhees will be holding
full-length practice SAT and ACT
exams on Sunday, March 8 from
8:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m. The cost of
this test is $35, with the proceeds
benefiting Cherokee HS Drama
Boosters.
Students choose
whether they want to take an SAT
or ACT Practice Test.
To sign-up or receive more information just call or email Tutoring Club at (856) 616-8808 or
cherryhillnj@tutoringclub.com.

Workshop size
is limited
WORKSHOP
Continued from page 3
the Walt Disney Company, and as
director of after-school programs
for the McCarter Theatre Center.
Each workshop is limited to
the first 25 students who register.
To register, visit voorheestheatre.org. The participation fee is
$30 per class or $75 for all three.
Registration deadline is April 10.
Donations to Broadway Cares /
Equity Fights AIDS will be accepted.
The Voorhees Theatre Company is a non-profit community theatre organization.

MARCH 410, 2015 THE VOORHEES SUN 5

One-to-one iPad initiative a possibility


Eastern Regional district technology supervisor presents board
with two scenarios in which all or majority of students receive own device
By ZANE CLARK
The Sun
The Eastern Camden County
Regional School District Board of
Education has a decision to make
in the coming months: Should it
purchase tablets for every student
at Eastern Regional High School
next year or even just a majority
of them?
Those two options were presented by district technology supervisor Fred Harris at the most
recent BOE meeting after the
technology committee was tasked
with coming up with future plans
and directions regarding technology.
The recommendation that
was made at the last district technology meeting was to have a oneto-one initiative for the upcoming
school year, Harris said.
As such, Harris presented the

board with two scenarios in


which all or a majority of students would receive their own, individual iPad for schoolwork.
The first scenario Harris presented is one in which the district
outfits every student in grades
nine through 12 with an iPad Air
2 64GB. Such a purchase would
include more than 1,567 iPads,
1,567 iPad cases, 1,000 keyboards,
an Applecare warranty plan and
additional software for a total
price of nearly $1.3 million.
The 1,567 iPads would be added
to the more than 560 iPads the
school already purchased for this
years new Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College
and Careers exam, and would result in every student ending up
with their own iPad.
The 1,000 keyboards purchased
in Harris first scenario would be
added to the 560 keyboards pur-

chased last year for the PARCC


testing, which requires a keyboard, and make it so all future
ninth-, 10th- and 11th-grade students required to take PARCC
could do so at the same time.
For this years inaugural
PARCC testing, students will
share the current 560 iPads and
be tested at different times depending on their grade level.
When not taking PARCC
exams, the students would have
the iPads for use in their various
classes and work at home, as opposed to the current iPads that
are shared between classes and
kept in school.
However, Harris said he was
uncomfortable going before the
board and asking it to budget for
an additional $1.3 million, and as
such he presented a second sceplease see COST, page 9

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No school district will see a decrease in state aid

Dan McDonough Jr.


chaIrman of elauwIt medIa

chool administrators throughout the state were holding their


collective breath leading up to
Gov. Christies 2015 budget address last
week.
Where would state aid stand? was
the question on everyones mind. If
state aid went down considerably, how
hard would it hit the school districts
bottom line?
Come last week, though, these same
administrators were able to breathe a
sigh of relief when Christie announced that his budget proposal
would actually increase state aid to
schools and, more importantly, would-

Its budget time


The school district will be releasing its
2015-2016 budget numbers, and the
impact on your tax bills, shortly. The Sun
will have all the details on the budget
when they are released. If you want to
share your thoughts on the topic, send
us a letter to the editor. Wed love to
hear from you.

nt reduce aid to any school district.


Overall, Christies budget provides
for an $811 million increase in educational funding, although only $4.6 million of that will go to school aid. The
rest is earmarked for debt, pension and
health care.

The good news for school districts


like ours, which doesnt receive the
bulk of state aid to public schools anyway, is that we will not lose any state
aid from last year. True, we wont be
seeing an increase, but at least we
wont lose money.
While we certainly could have used
more help from the Garden State, its
comforting to know we wont have to
kick in more money out of our already
thin pockets.
So two thumbs up to Christie for
paying attention to one of the most important aspects of life here in New Jersey our public schools.

letter to the editor


Writer: Parents, do not permit
kids to take PARCC exam
I disagree with the Feb. 25 PARCC editorial from the Sun in several areas. Let me
point out just two.
The Suns sub-headline says: Parents
shouldn't encourage kids to not take
PARCC test saying in part: But the fact is
that standard testing has been around for
decades, and PARCC is just the newest.
The Sun appears to justify a brand new,
unvalidated, and not yet credible PARCC
test by comparing it to an established and

widely accepted test, the SAT.


The Sun says: Well, we are testing
them, just like we have in the past.
The SAT test was developed in 1926 and
has established its validation and credibility over time. The SAT has also adapted itself with the evolution of education.
Today, major colleges and universities
accept SAT and even require SAT testing.
But, not even one major Philadelphia college or university recognizes PARCC.
(Source:
www.parcconline.org/sites/parcc/files/PA
RCCParticipating_Postsecondary_Institutions.pdf)

PARCC has no equal credibility or validation (as SAT) and the fact that so much
training of educators and students just
to take the test presents a reason for parents to say no.
I have researched PARCC and seen an
example PARCC math question whose answer of 1/4 was marked wrong because
PARCC claimed the only correct answer is
2/8. Can PARCC spell LCD?
Second Point: The Suns opinion also
states: Sometimes in life, we have to do
what we dont want to do and dont agree
please see LETTER, page 12

The Sun wants to know: How did you get engaged?


Share your stories with our readers for National Proposal Day on March 20
Maybe he popped the question on a picturesque summer day at the beach, a banner plane proclaiming his love flying overhead. Perhaps she organized your family
and friends into a flash mob, asking for
your hand in marriage at the end of an
elaborate song and dance. Or maybe it was
simple, both curled up on the couch at
home, sharing a pizza and laughing over

the latest episode of a favorite sitcom.


March 20 is National Proposal Day, and
no matter how you went from single to betrothed, The Sun wants to celebrate with
your stories.
Was it the most romantic proposal in
history? A proposal that went hysterically
wrong, but still with an enthusiastic yes
at the end? Maybe the third time was the

charm? Whatever your story, were calling


on you to send it in so we can share it with
everyone.
Send in your perfect (or not-so-perfect)
proposal story, and a photo of you and your
special someone, to our news email, which
is listed to the right.
Watch for your stories in an upcoming
issue of The Sun.

Tim Ronaldson

Joe Eisele

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InterIm publIsher

managIng edItor

Mary L. Serkalow
InterIm managIng edItor Kristen Dowd
voorhees edItor Zane Clark
art dIrector Stephanie Lippincott
advertIsIng dIrector Arlene Reyes

chaIrman of the board

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MARCH 410, 2015 THE VOORHEES SUN 7

Voorhees utilizes various


methods of communication
In an ongoing effort to share information and become more accessible, Voorhees Township continues to use multiple vehicles to
reach our residents.
Our new and improved municipal
website
at
www.voorheesnj.com has been
expanded and is the best source to
become informed about our community. It is much more userfriendly with additional content
and expanded links. Use the website to pay your taxes or get a copy
of your birth certificate. Meeting
agendas and minutes from Township Committee and other township boards are posted and there
is a link to view Committee meet-

ings.
For our esteemed veterans, there is a
link providing
information
about
local
benefits, local
organizations
and honors.
Local busi- Michael Mignogna
nesses are listMAYORS MESSAGE
ed by category
and links to their websites are
available to allow a direct connection. You can still sign up for the
Shop Voorhees program on our
please see POLICE, page 10

When you go away on vacation, long weekend, or


business, hire Sarge to keep watch of your home.
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learn together, talk about books,


and make friends in a relaxed,
community setting. Please contact Rosemary Scalese at 856772-1636
x7350
or
rscalese@camdencountylibrary.o
rg for more information. Space is
limited.
Teen Volunteer Boot Camp: Grades
6-12. 7 p.m. Voorhees Branch
Library at 203 Laurel Road. Do
you want to volunteer at the
library? All interested teens must
sign up and complete a Teen Volunteer Boot Camp session.
Please call Christen at the Youth
Services Desk, at (856) 772-1636
x7360, with any questions.
MOMS Club of Cherry Hill East and
Voorhees meeting: General
membership meeting. For details,
email
membership@momsclubcherryhill.org
or
visit
www.momsclubcherryhill.org for

THURSDAY MARCH 5
AARP Tax Aide: Adults. 10 a.m.
Voorhees Branch Library at 203
Laurel Road. Volunteers prepare
and process simple tax returns.
First-come, first-served basis. No
appointments. Sign up is at the
information desk on the first
floor.
VITA Tax Program: Adult. 4 p.m.
Voorhees Branch Library at 203
Laurel Road. VITA volunteers prepare and process simple tax
returns. First-come, first-served
basis. No appointments.
Next Chapter Book Club: Adult. 7
p.m. Voorhees Branch Library at
203 Laurel Road. The Next Chapter Book Club offers weekly
opportunities for adults and
teens with intellectual and developmental disabilities to read and

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NAMI Support Group: To provide
mutual support, education and
advocacy for individuals, families
and friends of persons affected
by severe and persistent mental
illness. 6 to 8 p.m. at M. Allan
Vogelson Library, Camden County Library Branch. Questions, call
Gale at (856) 701-8143.
Voorhees Breakfast Rotary Club:
7:15 a.m. at Short Hills Deli &
Restaurant, 486 East Evesham
Road, No. 103, Cherry Hill. For
more
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g.
Overeaters Anonymous: 10 to 11
a.m. at Hope United Church, 700
Cooper Road. Call 609-239-0022
or visit www.southjerseyoa.org.
Body After Baby: 7:15 to 8:15 p.m. at
1011 Main Street Promenade. Use

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and tighten. Cost is $60 for six
weeks. Registration required. For
more
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visit
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Free Exercise Class for Active
Seniors: 1:45 to 2:45 p.m. every
Thursday. Led by Fox Rehabilitation exercise physiologist at
Brookdale at Voorhees. Call (877)
407-3422 for more information
and to register.
Voorhees Central Chapter of BNI
Breakfast: 7 a.m. at The Mansion, 3000 Main St. BNI is a business and professional referral
organization. For more information visit www.bnidvr.com.
BNI Marlton Regional Chapter
Lunch: Every Thursday at 11:30
a.m. at The Mansion, 3000 Main
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learn more about how to grow
your business. Call Ray for details
at (609) 760-0624.
Babies Playgroup: Ages 1 to 18
months. 10 to 11 a.m. at Voorhees
Branch Library. Meet new friends!
We provide the toys and books
but no organized programming.

FRIDAY MARCH 6
Babies' Playgroup: Ages 1-18
months. 10 a.m. Voorhees Branch
Library at 203 Laurel Road. Little
ones meet new friends! The
library provide the toys and
books but no organized programming.
Toddler's Playgroup: Ages 18 - 36
months. 11 a.m. Voorhees Branch
Library at 203 Laurel Road. Play
with new friends! The library provides the toys and books but no
organized programming.
Senior Card Group: Adult. 12:45 p.m.
Voorhees Branch Library at 203
Laurel Road. Seniors meet, weekly, to play various card games.
Gaming Fridays: Grades 6-12. 3 p.m.
Voorhees Branch Library at 203
Laurel Road. Drop by The Corner
for board games, Wii, and XBox
360 fun.
Open Mic Night: Adult. 7 p.m.
Voorhees Branch Library at 203
Laurel Road. Poets gather to
share their works.
South Jersey Yarners: All. 7p.m.
Voorhees Branch Library at 203
Laurel Road. All things yarn!
Come with your knitting needles,
crochet hooks, and yarn for an
informal session with yarn enthusiasts. From beginners to
advanced. All ages welcome.
Congregation Beth El: Shabbat
service at 6 p.m. based on traditional liturgy and infused with
spirit by upbeat melodies and
camaraderie. 8000 Main St.,
Voorhees.
Hands & Foot Card Game for Senior Citizens: 1:30 p.m. in room A
or C on the third floor, Voorhees
Branch Library, 203 Laurel Road.
Questions, call Jeanne McCabe at
(856) 784-4676.

SATURDAY MARCH 7
Seuss-sational Story Time: Ages 310. 11 a.m. Voorhees Branch
Library at 203 Laurel Road. Celeplease see CALENDAR, page 12

MARCH 410, 2015 THE VOORHEES SUN 9

Cost could be $885K to $1.3 million

County launches Housing First


initiative to end homelessness
By Freeholder Carmen Rodriguez

COST
Continued from page 5
nario in which only ninth-, 10thand 11th-grade classes would receive iPads.
In that second scenario, 1,065
iPads and cases would be purchased, along with everything
else in his first scenario, for a
lower price of $885,000.
Harris said the first priority is
looking out for the PARCC testing, meaning if the price had to
be lowered, then grades nine, 10
and 11 are the ones who need the
iPads most.
We would like to provide an
opportunity, that when we do provide PARCC testing, that we could
do all the testing at one time,
Harris said.
As for the total prices in both
scenarios, Harris said the estimates are already based on receiving a 3 percent discount as
the district did with the purchase
of iPads last year, and while
Apple said the total price wont go
any higher, Harris said it wont be
much lower either.

HOPE Church
plans craft fair
for March 14
HOPE Church, located at 700
Cooper Road, will be hosting its
annual Spring Craft and Gift
Show on Saturday, March 14 from
9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Nearly 100 vendors will be on
hand selling a host of items from
high-quality custom jewelry, art,
and home accessories to beautifully sculpted wooden articles, ceramic pieces, and delicious baked
goods just to name a few. With
food and refreshments also on
sale, families should plan on
spending the whole day.
For more information about
the show, contact Dennis Kessler
at hopemensgroup@hotmail.com
or (856) 278-3802.

If the district decides to pursue


the one-to-one initiative, and the
bulk of the iPads are purchased,
Harris said the board could then
budget every year for one class
load of iPads, as the devices are
expected to last about four years
the typical length of a students
high school career.
Other questions to be discussed at a future technology
committee
meeting
include
whether to pursue the Applecare
warranty, as well as what to do

with an iPad once its four years


with a student are up.
Of the need for every student
to have an iPad to begin with,
Harris said the iPad just isnt a
device made to be shared among
individuals.
Its really a device thats
meant to be used by one individualwhen you have multiple people using the same device like
were using right now, it causes a
lot of workarounds that we have
to do, Harris said.

Im proud to be part
of a new initiative
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homeless populationthroughout the county
and allow us, as a region, to start making a
real change on this
issue. The program,
Housing First, puts us
on the path to ending homelessness
in Camden County.
The New Jersey Department of
Community Affairs, New Jersey Department of Human Services, Camden County Board of Freeholders,
local hospitals, Camden Coalition of
Healthcare Providers, Southern NJ
Continuum of Care and local housing providers launched this collaborative effort to reduce homelessness
across Camden County.
It is an innovative, evidence-based
approach to ending homelessness
that has been effective in communities across the country. These programs have been successful in
keeping the costliest, most vulnerable, long-term and chronically homeless patients stably housed,
dramatically reducing unnecessary
hospitalizations, emergency room
visits and incarcerations. A decade
of evidence has shown that it is more
expensive to keep a homeless person
on the streets than it is to get someone into permanent housing,
through a Housing First approach.
The New Jersey Department of
Community Affairs and the New Jersey Department of Human Services
are committing 50 vouchers for a
Housing First project for high-utilizers of the health care system in Camden County. A competitive RFP
process is expected to open next
month with an expected launch date
this summer The Camden County
Freeholder Board will invest
$100,000
of
funding
from

the Homeless Trust


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strategy.
It is estimated that on
any given night, more
than 650 individuals
are homeless in Camden County. This program is the first step
toward reducing this
number and achieving
our goal of ending homelessness.
Housing First has resulted in plummeting homeless numbers in the
greater Trenton area and has given
over 800 children a safe place to live.
It is much easier to get your life back
on track when you dont have to
worry about where your family is
going to sleep at night.
In addition to this pilot project, the
Camden County Housing First
Transformation Project will bring together stakeholders from across the
city, county and state to participate
in a quarterly leadership council to
coordinate efforts to continue to invest in Housing First and to shift the
local ecosystem towards a focus on
permanent housing for the most vulnerable and expensive individuals. It
will also convene a learning collaborative for staff and leaders from
local housing and service providers
to develop the skills and capacity to
serve the most vulnerable homeless
individuals through high-fidelity
Housing First programs. The Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH)
will be providing this training and
technical assistance.
For more information, visit
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If you
have any questions or comments
about Camden County Services,
please call me at (856) 225-5575 or
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webpage.
The website also includes an
area for suggestions and comments as well as a bulletin board
that allows community information to be shared.
Be sure to like our Facebook
page, which is updated daily.
Local happenings and events
with pictures around town are
shared. The Shop Voorhees Business of the Month deals and
coupons are also shared on our
Facebook page. In addition, pictures and descriptions of all of
our municipal parks are viewable
in an album. If you are looking
for something to do around town
this weekend, start with our Facebook page. The page also pro-

vides information that is disseminated by Nixle.


The Nixle system allows our
police to provide information
about local traffic alerts, Amber
alerts, road closures and other police activities. It also circulates
township information such as
community activities and events.
Registered users receive up-tothe-minute information by text
message, email or both. Sign up
using the Nixle Quick Link on
our website or by visiting
www.nixle.com. When signing
up, you can select the type of
alerts you would like to receive as
well as the coverage location of
those alerts.
Also, in an ongoing effort to
keep our community safe, share
information and become more accessible, the Voorhees Township
Police Department recently introduced a new website at
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Parents question how non-test takers would be logged in records


PARENTS
Continued from page 1

of which at the Feb. 25 Voorhees


BOE meeting being what would
happen to students whose parents
refused to have them take the test.
While parents have the legal
right to refuse any test on behalf
of their child, many districts interpret the laws concerning
PARCC to mean all students must
still be presented with the test.
This has led to parents refusing
the test, arguing against their
child being forced to sit and
stare at their desk for the number of hours while other children
are testing.
Parent Dina Prendergast said
she had refused the test three
weeks ago and still had not heard
back from the superintendent on
what would happen to children
who werent taking the test.
Sit and stare is not acceptable
to me, Prendergast said. I will
not accept that. That is inhumane
to my children. I think that is ostracizing a childI want to know
why I wasnt answered with handing letters in and my emails.
Superintendent
Raymond
Brosel Jr. said as of the Friday be-

fore the latest BOE meeting, representatives from the state had
still failed to provide information
as to what can or cant be done
with students not taking the test.
However, Brosel admitted that
he and the district could have
done a better job keeping parents
updated about PARCC.
Parent Sally Lytle, who also refused the test, said the district
should have done a better job
communicating to parents, even
if the communication was simply
that they didnt have any answers
at this time.
This sit and stare isnt going
to cut it anymore, Lytle said.
Youre not going to make our
kids sit and stare, and were not
going to accept sitting and stare
by anybody who works for or was
elected by us anymore.
Board President Richard Nelson said he was speaking for the
board when he told all parents
that the children refusing the test
would not be sitting and staring.
The likelihood is theyre
going to be in a separate room.
Depending on how large the class
is, the size of the people that are
waving the test, depending on the
number of students, there will be
some location in the school. We
dont know what that location is
right now because we dont know

Whats on your
bucket List?

what the size is, Nelson said.


Nelson said he and the board
have and never would do something wrong for the children of
the district, and even if parents
didnt receive answers to their
questions right away, the board
would still look into the issues
raised.

If you watch our silence in


some of the other meetings, yeah,
sometimes we dont know how to
address it at that point and time,
and to get into a debate on the
floor with all these people I dont
believe is the right way to do it,
he said.
Other PARCC-related com-

plaints raised by parents at the


meeting included how a students
refusal would be logged into the
test records, how the districts response was lacking compared to
other area towns and how some
parents were getting different answers from school principals versus district administrators.

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Amanda's Cabaret: Adult. 8
p.m. Osage School, 112 Somerdale
Road. In what has become an
annual VTC tradition, adult performers many of them former
VTC kids will lend their talents
to an array of Broadway songs at
Amandas Cabaret. A $10 donation is requested and includes
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call (856) 206-3554.
Mommy and Baby Yoga: 9 to 10
a.m. at The Ripa Center for
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and baby! Focus on breathing
techniques and asanas (postures)
for mom. For beginners to

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MONDAY MARCH 9
Welcome to the Web: Adult. 10:30
a.m. Voorhees Branch Library at
203 Laurel Road. Using a web
browser, navigating a webpage,
basics of using a search engine.
Adult Intermediate. Must know
how to use the mouse.
Totally Toddler Story Time: Ages 18
months 2 years. 10:30 a.m.
Voorhees Branch Library at 203
Laurel Road. Stories, songs,
movements, finger plays, and a
coloring sheet at this drop in toddler story time!
Voorhees Toastmasters meeting:
7:30 p.m. at Heritage Church, 110
Kresson-Gibbsboro Road. Visit
voorhees.toastmastersclubs.org
for more information.

TUESDAY MARCH 10
AARP Tax Aide: Adults. 10 a.m.
Voorhees Branch Library at 203
Laurel Road. Volunteers prepare
and process simple tax returns.
First-come, first-served basis. No
appointments. Sign up is at the

information desk on the first


floor.
Home School Lego: Grades K-eight.
11 a.m. Voorhees Branch Library
at 203 Laurel Road. Build with
legos provided by the library and
meet other home school families.
Brookdale Senior Living Miller
Trust Presentation: Adult. 4:30
p.m. Brookdale Voorhees 1301
Laurel Oak Road. For those families neither wealthy enough to
pay for assisted living nor poor
enough to qualify for Medicaid, a
presentation on a way to become
income eligible with an income
only Miller Trust. A Miller Trust is
an irrevocable trust that permits
the resident to become Medicaid
eligible. All of the residents
income would go into the trust.
Funds from the Miller Trust are
used to pay for assisted living.
Medicaid, if the resident is eligible
in all other respects, will pay what
the trust does not cover. Reserve
a spot. Call Brookdale Voorhees
at (856) 783-8383 or email Jennifer.Troncone@brookdale.com
Voorhees-Gibbsboro Rotary Club
meeting: Filomena's Restaurant,
Berlin. 7 to 8:30 p.m.For more
information call (856) 534-3384.
Senior Citizen Club Social: 11:30 a.m.
to 3 p.m. at Lions Lake Park Banquet Facility, 101 Dutchtown Road.
For more information call (856)
429-4703.

letter to the editor

LETTER
Continued from page 6

with doing.
Does The Sun know that a majority (27) of states chose to not
participate in PARCC? And as of
today, 13 of the 23 states that initially joined PARCC have now
withdrawn support and participation.
Only 10 states of our 50 are in
PARCC as of Feb. 25. (Source:
PARCC Wikipedia)
Does The Sun oppose the overwhelming majority of 40 states

who dont agree with doing?


We now know The Suns opinionbut, have we heard our local
Board of Education members
state in public their opinion of
this brand new and not yet credible PARCC test? Why not?
Until there are open and complete discussions of the merits of
PARCC, I will agree with and support parents who just say no
and remove their children from
testing. And on this point, I support the NJEA who asks: What
are we doing to our kids?
My opinion: Parentsdo not
permit your children to take the
2015 PARCC test.
Ron Richards

Email us at news@voorheessun.com

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