Today's letters: two more endorsements for Jordon DeGroote
I am writing this letter to support Jordon DeGroote for West Windsor Board of Education.
I have heard many high school students and parents complained about the poor performance of some teachers, who do a much better job in teaching when someone who conducts teacher evaluation shows up in the classroom. Do you think that is absurd? Yes, but it happens as the current teacher evaluation system doesn't consider the opinions from students. Parents say that you should consider yourself to be lucky if half of the teachers for your kids are good.
The defect in teacher evaluation system has contributed to the stress of many students. Instead of being helped by the teachers, kids are wasting their time in class. What is worse, they got meaningless but time consuming and labor intensive homework from teachers. The students work hard to finish the assignments, but could get no feedback from teachers. Such homework assignments help little in learning but only increase the workload of students.
Jordon is determined to improve the education quality. He calls for a new evaluation system that includes the voices of students. The new system will greatly help students and parents. It will also help to keep the great reputation of our district and hence the property value!
Let us vote for Jordon DeGroote on Nov. 3!
Xiaoling Hou
West Windsor
If you have met Jordon DeGroote, you surely will know he is really determined to help improve our schools. He knows from his first hand experiences the many issues that our schools are facing. He knows what are working in our schools and what are not. He is really agonized over the fact that with so much money spent on the schools year over year, the district just keeps creating more controversies than services, more discontent than applause -- the inability of our district to improve the quality of education within a controlled budget. Jordon DeGroote, "Mr. Fix It" as many may call him, won't be doing nothing while occupying a BOE seat. He is an energetic problem solver. He is a great leader and relentless fighter. He is also an excellent communicator. He will help to unite our district and solve the problems. I give my full support for Jordon DeGroote running for WW-P Board of Education, and encourage everyone to do so.
Bing Bai
West Windsor
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