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‘Permanent Forfeiture’ of ATVs and Dirt Bikes Unlawfully Driven Approved in Pemberton Council ‘Implements’ Senate Bill Enacted in January Letting Towns Address ‘Unlawful Operation’ of Such Vehicles Through ‘Seizure’

By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer

PEMBERTON—All-terrain vehicles (ATVs) and dirt bikes that are unlawfully driven on “public streets, highways, or rightsof-ways” have been unanimously declared by Pemberton Township Council to be “a threat to the public’s health, safety and welfare” under a new state provision.

And such a declaration by the local governing body now subjects such motorized vehicles being driven illegally in Pemberton to “permanent forfeiture” by local law enforcement, also giving the authorities the power to “dispose” of and “destroy” them once they are seized.

An ordinance containing the local declaration, which thereby implements in the township new powers granted to state municipalities through Senate Bill 4080, enacted by Democratic Governor Phil Murphy on Jan. 10, was approved by council 5-0 on Feb. 16.

This newspaper previously reported on instances in which township residents in 2020 and last year pleaded with council to crackdown on the use of ATVs and dirt bikes, citing concerns about speeding, reckless driving, loud noise and other disturbances they claimed were being created by their use in town.

Council, last September, in particular, heard from a Presidential Lakes couple about the impacts “quads, ATVs and dirt bikes and

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Keira Scussa, Medford’s New School Superintendent, Comes to Her Job in the Very System Where She and Her 3 Children Went Through School with a Determination to Use Resources Ranging from YouTube to Books to Turn Pupils into ‘Decision Makers’ and ‘Problem Solvers’

By Bill Bonvie Staff Writer

MEDFORD —W h i le s chool administrators throughout the U.S. struggle to literally make up for lost time in the progress of their students due to the pandemic’s chaotic effects on curricula and classroom instruction, Keira Scussa, the new superintendent of the Medford Township School District, where she herself attended kindergarten through eighth grade, as did her three children, sees an abundance of opportunities to broaden the horizons of those emerging from that disruptive period of their education.

But doing that, she notes in a recent interview with the Pine Barrens Tribune,

entails narrowing the focus of their horizons as well – by emphasizing the uniqueness of their own immediate environment, which is all too often lost on the current technologically-oriented generation of students.

An illustration of how that could be achieved using the resources now available was a virtual learning experience Scussa oversaw last winter after returning to her hometown district to serve as administrative director of educational prog ra m m i ng a nd pla n n i ng, w ith responsibilities for curriculum.

This particular project, conceived by two fifth-grade teachers at the district’s Cranberry Pines Elementary School,

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Melissa Reiss and Maegen Cicchetti, involved exposing all 70 students in their classes to a presentation of local historical lore by Dr. Stephanie James Harris, Ph.D., an adjunct professor of African American History at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and executive director of the Amistad Commission for the state Department of Education.

Included in the remote interactive session was Medford’s role as a stop on the Underground Railroad and the life of one of the town’s most prominent 19th Century residents, Dr. James Still, a herbalist and homeopathic healer descended from slaves, known as the “Black Doctor of the See SUPERINTENDENT/ Page 13

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Pemberton District to Hire Ten Interim Security Guards, as Well as Social Worker, for ‘Remainder of School Year’ Administrators Highlight How District ‘Continues to Progress Toward’ or Is Meeting Goals, Objectives of Its Strategic Plan Amid a Pandemic

By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer

P E M B E RT O N —T h e P e m b e r t o n Tow nsh ip School Distr ict, fa c i ng a continuing behavioral and mental health crisis, intends to hire ten “interim school security guards” for the “remainder of the (school) year” to augment its current school security staff, Superintendent Jeffrey Havers announced during a Feb. 17 Pemberton Township Board of Education workshop meeting, with the public body subsequently approving the creation of the new positions.

Traditionally, the Pemberton school board waits until its regular monthly meeting (which was scheduled for Feb. 24, after this newspaper’s press time) to take any formal action, but Havers maintained, “I didn’t want to wait until the action meeting” to have the board take action.

“I care deeply about all my colleagues and the students,” declared Havers in making the announcement. “One of the things (Assistant Superintendent) Mrs. (Adelina) Giannetti and I discussed last Friday night and over this past weekend was how can we better support our staff and students with the funding that we have. On the agenda tonight, because we wanted to get started with it right away, is (a measure) to hire ten security guards for the remainder of the year … to provide for better supervision and monitoring of our students and hopefully support a better climate with structure.”

Additionally, according to Havers, the district will be adding “for the remainder of the year” a “school social worker” to its

rolls, another interim position the board approved during its latest work session.

Four of the interim school security guards will be placed at Pemberton Township High School, Havers noted, while another four will be assigned to Helen A. Fort Middle School. The remaining two will be assigned to Marcus Newcomb Middle School, the superintendent added.

“I applaud the hiring of more security in these schools,” said Board Member Lionel Lee, a former corrections officer and district basketball coach. “I speak from a position of understanding what the situation is; it is definitely needed. More eyes are always helpful. You have complaints about behavior and all that stuff, so I think this is a step in the right direction in getting more security, especially at the high school and middle schools.”

Havers’ pronouncement followed yet another district staffer coming forward at a Pemberton school board session to add to the many accounts from other district employees, as well as parents, that the Pemberton school system is facing a behavioral and mental health crisis this school year. Havers previously acknowledged the pandemic “set us behind.”

“I ask that you look into and address the issues with the growing concern of school altercations,” said district staffer Colleen McCormick to the board on Feb. 17. “In my building alone, it continues to be a problem.

If our students and staff members don’t feel safe at school, we have a problem! I ask for See GUARDS/ Page 8

Wearing a Mask in Pemberton Twp. Schools to Become ‘Optional,’ But Will Remain a Requirement on Buses Due to ‘Federal Mandate’ Superintendent Says Children Will Be Able to Learn Better Academically, as Well as Benefit Socially and Emotionally, by Not Having to Wear Them; Governor’s Press Secretary, CDC Address Questions About Masks on Busing

By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer

P E M B E RT O N — M a s k i n g i n s i d e Pemberton Township School District facilities, including in all its schools, will become “optional” beginning March 7, when Democratic Governor Phil Murphy says he will allow a school masking mandate, implemented due to the Coronavirus pandemic, to expire, Superintendent Jeffrey Havers announced in a Feb. 16 video for students, staff and visitors.

“Governor Murphy recently announced that as of Monday, March 7, he is ending the mandate that requires students, staff and visitors to wear masks in schools and childcare settings in New Jersey,” pointed out Havers in the video. “In discontinuing the state’s masking mandate, Governor Murphy gave authority to local school districts to make their own decisions regarding masks.

And here in Pemberton Township, we have made a decision to make masks optional.

Staff, students and visitors will no longer be required to wear a mask, but instead (be allowed to) make their own decisions whether or not to wear a mask in school buildings.”

Among a handful of exceptions, the superintendent noted, is if an individual is still within a period of 10 days from testing positive for COVID or presents symptomatically for COVID “while waiting to leave the building.”

The statewide school masking mandate has essentially been in place since September 2020, when schools across the state were

given the option to reopen for in-person instruction for the first time following a mandated pandemic shutdown in March 2020 that lasted through the end of the 201920 school year.

Murphy had previously moved to lift the mandate early last summer, but reversed course in August 2021, continuing the mandate for the “beginning” of the 202122 school year, citing a rise in COVID cases at the time.

He then extended the mandate again later into the current school year citing the Delta and Omicron variants that resulted in a surge in COVID cases and hospitalizations.

But now, according to Murphy during a recent Coronavirus media briefing, “because of the dramatic decline in our COVID numbers, effective Monday, March 7, the statewide school mask mandate will be lifted.”

“We can responsibly take this step given the continuing drop in new cases and hospitalizations from Omicron and with all the evidence projecting a continued decline over the coming weeks,” Murphy added. “We are also buoyed by the continued growth in vaccinations and the expectation that the vaccines will be made available to children under the age of 5 in early March.”

An additional factor in lifting the masking mandate, according to the governor, is that “March traditionally means the weather starts to warm up at least a bit” giving schools “a little bit more flexibility to increase ventilation, be more creative with that, and See MASKS/ Page 7

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Boundaries of State’s 8th and 9th Legislative Districts to Change, Beginning with 2023 Election Cycle After Redistricting Concludes Bipartisan Vote Decides Redistricting for Next Decade in Historic First; 9th Legislative District to No Longer Comprise of BurlCo Municipalities

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By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer

TRENTON—Beginning in 2023, the state assemblypersons and senators who represent you in the state Legislature could change, not as a direct consequence of any official election result or resignations, but rather redistricting that was agreed to last week by the New Jersey Legislative Redistricting Commission.

The 11-member commission voted 9-2 on Feb. 18 to adopt a new map redrawing the state’s legislative districts, which takes effect beginning with the November 2023 election and will remain in place for a decade after that.

Locally, the boundaries of the 8th and 9th legislative districts will change somewhat.

As required by the state Constitution, the apportionment commission is charged with redrawing the lines of the state’s 40 legislative districts, from which the 40 senators and 80 assembly members of the state Legislature are elected.

Legislative redistricting, according to the state Constitution, must be undertaken at the beginning of each decade to account for population changes that occur during the previous decade within the geographical boundaries of the state.

Before the legislative redistricting process can begin, the federal decennial Census of the U.S. must be taken. The Census provides the raw demographic and geographic data from which the legislative districts are created.

The commission consists of ten members

appointed in equal numbers by the chairmen of the state committees of each of the two political parties whose candidates for governor received the largest number of votes at the most recent gubernatorial election.

An eleventh commissioner is appointed by the chief justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court to serve as a tiebreaking vote.

However, in a historic first, the commission last week came to terms on a “bipartisan map” for the next decade, without needing the tiebreaking vote.

The 9th Legislative District, which currently includes Tabernacle, Washington and Bass River townships in Burlington County, as well as the City of Port Republic and Galloway Township in Atlantic County, represented by state Senator Christopher J. Connors, as well as Assemblywoman DiAnne Gove and Brian E. Rumpf – all Republicans, will soon comprise of only Ocean County municipalities and pick up two more, Manchester Township and Lakehurst Borough.

The 8th Legislative District, currently represented by state Senator Jean Stanfield, as well as Assemblymen Michael Torrissi and Brandon Umba, also all Republicans, will soon lose its only Camden County municipality, Waterford Township, expand further into northeastern Burlington County, and now encompass Tabernacle, Washington and Bass River townships as well.

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By Bill Bonvie Staff Writer

LITTLE EGG HARBOR—Based on an extensive police investigation involving a number of different departments, law enforcement agencies and other state government institutions, which began with the discovery of telltale litter and culminated in the use of a vehicular tracking device, Gregory Fullman, Jr., 32, of Manchester, Ocean County, is now facing more than two dozen arson charges, including one for having set the wildfire that scorched some 617 acres and threatened homes and businesses in Little Egg Harbor and Bass River townships last May 16.

According to a report signed by Detective Cpl. Christopher Arciniegas, of the Little Egg Harbor Police Department, and obtained from the Ocean County Prosecutor’s office via an Open Public Records Act (OPRA) request, Fullman is believed by authorities to be a serial arsonist responsible for igniting that blaze, which occurred off Otis Bog and Stage roads, several more set in Little Egg Harbor last December, as well as a number of other forest fires in Lakewood and Manchester townships between May 2021 and last month.

In separate complaints filed in Little Egg Harbor Municipal Court, Fullman is specifically charged with committing “aggravated arson by starting a fire or causing an explosion … with the purpose of destroying or damaging any forest, specifically by igniting pine needles and leaf litter intentionally causing uncontrolled brush fires and wildland fires,” both west of Otis Bog Road last May and in the area of Thomas Avenue between Route 539 and Poor Man’s Parkway in December.

Fullman, who has been lodged in Ocean County Jail, in Toms River, since being arrested on Jan. 31, is being represented by attorney David J. Foley, III of Keansburg Borough, Monmouth County. Foley failed to respond to several phone messages left with his office by this newspaper over the past two weeks.

The probe of last May’s fire, as chronicled in the report, began with a forensic examination of macro- and micro-scale burn patterns, angles of char, and recorded weather readings, which led investigators to determine that it began in two separate places, as plotted by GPS, and was “incendiary” in origin.

The first clues that led to the suspect’s apprehension consisted of a number of pieces of evidence found during a search of the area where the blaze began, which included 16 half-cut brown cigarette filters, two empty Marlboro 100s packs, and what was determined to be a recently discarded BANGRainbow Unicorn flavored energy drink can.

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Analysis of Litter Found at Scene of Last May’s LEHT Wildfire Leads to Arrest of Ocean County Man on Serial Arson Charges representative of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms that the cigarette packs bore tax stamps indicating they had to have been sold by a Wawa convenience store. That, in turn, led to the discovery of May 15 security footage from the Wawa on East Main Street in Tuckerton showing a customer purchasing two packs of Marlboro 100s and the identical energ y dr ink discovered at the scene, before leaving the parking lot in a red, four-door hatchback.

Next came a finding from the New Jersey State Police Office of Forensic Sciences that DNA on a Marlboro cigarette found at the scene where the fire originated was a DNA match for Fullman, to whom Department of Motor Vehicle records showed a 2009 Honda CRV, similar to the car in the surveillance footage, was registered.

A further records search, this one done by the N.J. Department of Labor of its Loops and Wages Database, revealed that Fullman was employed during the second quarter of 2021 at Charlie’s Auto Collision Repair, Inc., on Route 9 in Little Egg Harbor, approximately 2,000 feet from where the fire originated.

That information, combined with what investigators found on Fullman’s social media accounts, which showed him in similar garb to that of the individual in the store footage, was enough for authorities to identify him as a suspect. But while a law enforcement database found he had been arrested by both the Tinton Falls and Stafford township police departments and was on probation in Monmouth County, they were unable to immediately locate him.

Then, on Dec. 1, additional br ush fires were spotted and extinguished in Lakewood and Manchester townships, with surveillance footage taken from both areas showing a silver sedan present in the vicinity of both fires at the time of their ignition.

A week later, multiple brush fires were detected in Little Egg Harbor, in the area of Poor Man’s Parkway and Route 539, with footwear and tire impressions taken at the scene. A subsequent search of the scene turned up more recently discarded Marlboro cigarette butts.

At around the same time, police in Manchester checked out a suspicious vehicle matching the description of the second car associated with the fires, which was stopped in an area posted as private property, the driver of which turned out to be Fullman.

After observing scratches on the vehicle consistent with driving through a wooded area and cigarette filters scattered about the passenger side, the patrolman obtained the driver’s consent to search the vehicle, finding, among other items, two lighters and a matchbook in the armrest and a paper towel with what appeared to be motor oil on it in a cupholder, as well as Marlboro cigarettes. In addition, the Nike sneakers See ARSON/ Page 15

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McCooley Seeks Input on Practice of Setting Lowest Grades at 55, Saying Pinelands District May Consider Altering It in Coming Year Unspecified ‘Unauthorized Payments’ Said to Have Been ‘Corrected’

By Bill Bonvie Staff Writer

L I T T L E E G G H A R B O R —T h e somewhat controversial procedure of setting the lowest possible grade for students at a 55 will continue to be the subject of an “ongoing conversation” between Pinelands Regional School District administrators, faculty members and parents, according to Superintendent Dr. Melissa McCooley.

“The staff has been given additional professional development to support the current practices and we continue to receive feedback, good, bad and indifferent,” McCooley reported to the Pinelands Regional Board of Education at its Feb. 14 meeting, noting that a Zoom session on the subject will be scheduled shortly at which community members can express their concerns about grading practices, and its input will then be used in formulating them for the 2022-23 school year.

The procedure, she said, is also under review by two committees, the School Improvement Panel (SCIP), made up of administrators and teachers, and the Student Achievement Leadership Team (SALT), which is open to anyone who wants to join, with additional sessions planned for both committees and “any other parents that want to weigh in on how this practice should be implemented.”

“So, if you have concerns, please attend those meetings,” McCooley urged.

While maintaining that nearly three qu a r t e r s of s om e 276 p a r e nt s who responded to a recent survey disseminated by the district said they had no questions or concerns about current grading practices, the superintendent told the Pine Barrens

Tribune in a subsequent phone conversation that “we may alter it (the grading procedure) based on the input of the group.”

In what may have been an attempt to quell another source of criticism, McCooley announced that the district had “pulled from the agenda” a measure to fill an opening for the post of math and science curriculum director following the departure of its previous occupant, John Berenato, who has become the superintendent of schools in Manchester, saying it had been decided “it was best not to move forward with that shared service (with the Little Egg Harbor District).”

Instead, Assistant Superintendent Gina Fresca “will now be overseeing the math and science department,” said McCooley, adding that Fresca “has an extensive knowledge of not only curriculum, but of administration, and her other departments have always been successful.”

“So, we’re looking forward to that,” McCooley maintained.

On the subject of new policies, the super intendent descr ibed a prog ram now being introduced in the district that requires each student to develop “their own personalized goal, whether its social or emotional, sports or academic,” which is similar to what teachers and administrators do, and wh ich she descr ibed to th is newspaper as being “pretty innovative.” She also announced that a student representative – most likely either the Student Council president or someone designated by that individual – will be on the board during future meetings, although not with any voting authority or the ability to take part in executive sessions (a new See GRADES/ Page 6

‘Non-Credible’ Bomb Threat Forces Middle School Evacuation PEMBERTON—A bomb threat forced the evacuation of Helen Fort Middle School in Pemberton Township on Feb. 22.

A later statement from the Pemberton Township Police Department noted that the threat was reported around 1:15 p.m. on Feb. 22.

According to a letter later disseminated by the Pemberton Township School District to school parents and guardians, and obtained by this newspaper, a note was discovered in the restroom of the school “indicating there was a bomb in the building.”

“The authorities were notified, proper protocol was followed, and out of an abundance of caution, Helen Fort staff and students were first evacuated to Newcomb (Middle School) and then to the (Pemberton Tow nsh ip) Hig h School, where they remained for a short time until dismissal,” the letter stated.

According to the letter, a police investigation determined the threat to be “non-credible” and Helen Fort was “deemed safe for re-entry.”

The statement from police noted that both the “Joint Base Police K9 Unit as well as the New Jersey State Police Bomb Unit responded, cleared the school and found no threat.”

“While false threats like this one pose no real danger, they significantly disrupt student learning, cause unnecessary anxiety and have serious consequences for the person making the threat,” it was noted in the district’s letter.

“Please know we will continue to investigate the credibility of all threats, as the safety and security of our students and staff remain a priority at Pemberton Township Schools.”

According to police, the investigation into the incident is continuing and anyone with information is asked to call the Pemberton Police Detective Bureau at 609-894-3310.

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Daleo Explains His Absence from Last Pinelands Board Meeting as Due to a Close Brush with Death from ‘Surprise Health Issue’

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August “Augie” Daleo, vice president of the Pinelands Regional Board of Education.

By Bill Bonvie Staff Writer

LITTLE EGG HARBOR— During his three years on the Pinelands Regional Board of Education and nine years on the Little Egg Harbor Township School Board, August “Augie” Daleo, the current vice president and former president of the Pinelands board, has almost never missed a meeting. So, when he failed to show up for the one on Feb. 14, members might have been justified in thinking there was cause for concern.

If so, they would have been right, as Distr ict Sup er intendent Dr. Melissa McCooley indicated during the session without going into specifics.

Two weeks before, on the night of Jan. 29, immediately following the region’s biggest blizzard in several years, the 55-year-old Daleo was suddenly stricken with a pain that was unlike anything he says he had ever experienced. He knew he needed to get to a hospital immediately, whatever the weather, and credits the quick action of the local EMS in getting him there for having saved his life.

“They were here in no time,” he told the Pine Barrens Tribune.

It wasn’t a heart attack, but rather what he described as a “cardiac event – a surprise health issue that came out of nowhere,” which he would rather wait to share the exact nature of with his colleagues on the board,

but which the doctors at Southern Ocean Medical Center – Hackensack Meridian Health told him would require an emergency operation that was beyond the resources they had available. They immediately arranged for Daleo to be airlifted to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania where some “very serious surgery” could be performed.

“I can tell you I’m very lucky I survived it,” said Daleo of his ordeal, noting that he was told he initially had only a 13 to 20 percent chance of doing so.

But he was also out of the hospital in only nine days, whereas he expected to be there two to three weeks, and has been making a faster recovery than anticipated – something he attributes to his having made a point of staying physically fit his entire life.

He said he has his next appointment scheduled with his cardiologist on March 3 and hopes to be able to resume his normal activities after that, and to be recovered enough to attend the next Pinelands board meeting March 14.

One thing he kept in mind during the ordeal, he said, was not wanting his sons or his wife to witness his sudden demise.

“I want to thank my surgeon for saving my life,” Daleo declared.

But he added that while it was a “horrible” experience to go through, he’s actually happy he did, because it was a “life-changing moment” and he now considers himself “blessed” by having done so, and no longer takes anything for granted.

“I’m a completely changed person,” maintained Daleo, noting that the friends who have since visited him have remarked on how he’s become a “totally different” individual.

He added that he was “blown away by the number of messages he found from wellwishers on his phone a few days after the surgery – more than 500 of them.”

Daleo is the second Pinelands board member to have survived a recent life-anddeath medical crisis.

Last spring, the board’s then-president, Thomas “Tommy” Williams, Jr., of Bass River Township, a retired Little Egg Harbor police detective, had a life-saving lung transplant performed at Temple University Hospital after a COVID-19 infection nearly killed him. He has now recovered well enough to serve on the Bass River Township School Board.

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Egg Harbor City in Atlantic County will also soon be included as part of the 8th Legislative District, breaking away from the state’s 2nd Legislative District.

“The redistricting compromise was a great moment for the people of this state and the 8th District,” said Torrissi in a later statement provided to this newspaper. “I’m excited to bring more of Atlantic County and the Pine Barrens into the 8th District, which coincides with the blue collar, open space and farming culture the residents already possess.”

Both Republicans and Democrats were given an opportunity to submit a map for adoption, before the bipartisan map was agreed to.

The Democratic map, if adopted, would have radically changed the makeup of

the 8th Legislative District, (which has seen competitive races in recent election cycles, but the GOP still maintained its grip), adding a majority of Burlington County’s Delaware River riverfront towns, and dropping Medford, Evesham and Southampton townships in the county, as well as the Atlantic County municipalities it comprises, making them instead comprise of either the 6th, 7th, or 9th legislative districts.

That would have, in turn, likely split apart Stanfield from Torrissi (of Hammonton) and Umba (from Medford), as the three would have no longer been eligible to run together for the 8th District unless Torrissi and Umba moved. Additionally, Stanfield, in a re-election bid, could have faced off against Democratic Senator Troy Singleton, of Palmyra, who has held strong margins in the Burlington County riverfront towns.

The Republican map would have kept the 7th, 8th and 9th legislative districts mostly intact, but aimed to expand the 8th District to include all southeastern Burlington County municipalities.

Many other legislative districts have either gained or dropped various municipalities through the latest redistricting process.

State political observers have contended over the past couple of days that the new map could make it more likely for Republicans to regain a majority in the state Legislature in future election cycles, while also pointing out that some senior Democrats in the state Legislature are now facing the prospects of having to primary each other.

“I applaud the redistricting commission on achieving the first compromise redistricting map in the state’s history,” said Umba in a later statement to this newspaper. “It was a great show of bipartisanship and democracy.

Hopefully it continues to resonate in the halls of Trenton. I’ll continue to represent every municipality in my district to the best of my ability and am excited to welcome in new towns when the time comes.”

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Evesham Man Charged with Possession of Child Pornography EVESHAM—A 53-year-old resident of the Marlton section of Evesham Township has been charged with possessing child pornography, according to an announcement

by Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina and Evesham Township Acting Police Chief Walter Miller.

Kevin Gaffney, of the first block of Marlborough Avenue, was arrested Feb. 23 and charged with third-degree endangerment of the welfare of a child.

He was lodged in Burlington County Jail in Mount Holly, pending an appearance in Superior Court.

Gaffney was taken into custody at his residence following the execution of a search warrant. Multiple electronic devices were seized, according to the announcement, and will be examined by members of the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office High Tech Crimes Unit, with an external hard drive belonging to the defendant having already been found to contain a large quantity of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) files.

The suspect is scheduled to be prosecuted

by Assistant Prosecutor Jennifer Weiler, with the case against him to be presented to a grand jury for possible indictment.

T he i nve stigation b egan after the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office High-Tech Crimes Unit received information regarding Gaffney’s online activities from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. It revealed that in addition to keeping CSAM on the external drive, Gaffney also used an online data storage system to maintain files of such material, the announcement said.

The investigation was conducted by the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office High-Tech Crimes Unit and the Evesham Tow n sh ip Pol ic e D e p a r t me nt , w it h assistance from United States Homeland Security Investigations – Cherry Hill Office, and the New Jersey State Police. The lead investigator was Evesham Township Detective Christopher DeFrancesco, who is assigned to the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office High-Tech Crimes Unit as a task force officer.

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(Continued from Page 4) state law requires boards that oversee grades 9 to 12 to have a student representative).

A new emergency communications plan, she said, was also in the process of being developed by Pinelands Regional High School Principal Troy Henderson and Assistant Principal Matthew Maleski in response to parental concerns, and will be posted on the district’s website once it has been completed.

While describing the survey of parents as having very positive results on the whole, McCooley said it reflected some concern about fights and violence in the district and the disciplinary measures taken in connection with them – a situation she said Henderson had done an analysis of for the high school and found that “overall, fights and acts of violence are down significantly.”

The superintendent further noted that as of March 7, the date school districts have been given a choice in the matter by Democratic Governor Phil Murphy, the wearing of masks in Pinelands classrooms will be optional, although they will still be required on school buses.

In other business, Jerry W. Conaty , an auditor with the accounting firm of Holman Frenia Allison, PC, of Toms River, gave a brief presentation in regard to the firm’s 200page current report that he said had finally been released after information needed by school districts was held up by the state for about nine months.

“After talking to (Business Administrator) Nick Brown, no modifications are necessary to bring us into compliance with necessary accounting standards,” Conaty said.

However, he did have four recommendations for the district that he said management had “already begun implementing corrective action on,” one of which Stephanie Johnson,

an employee of the school district, apparently was referring to when she later asked Brown, “Who issued that—the state or the audit firm?”

Brown replied, “the corrective action plan in that document was produced by me and then presented to the board and the auditor for review and approval,” prompting Johnson to ask, “And do you have any examples of what the unauthorized payments were and who authorized them or who made those payments?”

Brown said he did, but he wouldn’t discuss it, since it involved a personnel matter, causing Johnson to further inquire whether she could get it through the Open Public Records Act (OPRA).

“You can request anything you want under OPRA, and that request will get reviewed and responded to appropriately,” Brown answered.

Johnson then queried Brown as to whether the state sees the form in question and imposes any penalty on a school district for the alleged unauthorized activity, to which Brown replied that the state is required to get a copy but does not impose fines.

When Johnson asked how long the district had to correct whatever the situation was, he replied, “They’re corrected now,” adding, “I don’t know the exact timeline of the code, but we’ve been working on these since the issue was discovered several months ago, so we’ve had plenty of time.”

The exact nature of the issue involved wasn’t immediately apparent, however, since the audit report had not yet been posted online. When contacted by this newspaper in regard to the matter, Conaty said he wasn’t in a position to address it and referred the matter to Brown, who did not return several phone calls.

A further attempt to find out from Johnson by calling her home also proved unsuccessful. Her husband, Christopher, who posted an online petition last month urging that McCooley be fired, said she was not available to answer the question and he was unable to do so.

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(Continued from Page 2) further decrease the risk of COVID spread.”

Murphy called the lifting of the school masking mandate “a huge step back to normalcy for our kids.”

Havers echoed that point in the video he released and maintained that “after nearly two years of masking, I believe there are many benefits to making masks optional.”

“Without masks, our children will be able to learn better academically, as well as benefit socially and emotionally,” Havers contended. “We will finally be able to smile at one another again and more easily convey positive emotions that show support for our students. I believe we need to see each other as people in order to build valuable relationships that will strengthen our learning community.

It will be refreshing to see the faces of our students and co-workers, and liberating to interact on a more personal level.”

However, according to the superintendent, by making masking optional, there are some “important points to consider,” including some scenarios that could necessitate unvaccinated “close contacts” having to quarantine.

In the first scenario, Havers cited, any unvaccinated and un masked student who is considered a close contact to a masked student who tests positive for COVID-19 will have to quarantine, while a vaccinated student who is considered a close contact “will not need to quarantine.”

(An unvaccinated, but masked student identified as a close contact would not have to quarantine in this scenario, however.)

In the second scenario, the superintendent pointed to, any unvaccinated student who comes within 3 feet of a student who tests positive for COVID-19 “who is not wearing a mask,” regardless of their masking status,

will have to quarantine.

T houg h t he r e h a d b e e n a r e c e nt controversy about Havers reducing the COVID quarantining period from 10 days to five, Havers said in the video, “as of now, all students who test positive must quarantine for 10 days.”

Havers pointed out that while the masking requirements are being relaxed in the district’s facilities beginning March 7, masking is still currently required on all school buses due to “a federal mandate that requires masks to be worn by all individuals on buses.”

“That mandate remains in place,” the superintendent contended. “Therefore, students must wear a mask to and from school, and keep the mask in place for the entire ride. If and when the federal government releases that mandate, masks will be optional (on busing) too.”

District staffer Colleen McCormick, “also a mom,” during the Pemberton Township Board of Education’s Feb. 17 workshop meeting, praised the decision to make masking optional in schools, contending, “I fully believe unmasking our children and educators will better serve in curbing the educational loss our children are experiencing.”

“Sound and mouth formations will be better understood in the classroom foundations, as well as facial and emotional signs being shown for staff to notice problems or struggles,” McCormick added.

However, McCormick maintained that she believed the ultimate decision with masking on school buses rested with the district as it is part of “district transportation,” not state or federal transportation. She pointed to a federal code that she contended “does not include school bus services” in asking the district to “reconsider” its position on masking requirements for school buses.

“Our students will not be mingling with strangers on the buses, but with students who they are already in class with and play

with – masked or unmasked,” McCormick pointed out. “If they can be in school unmasked, they should be able to be on the buses, together, unmasked.”

Havers, in response, maintained that he would “love to make masking on buses optional,” but superintendents in Burlington County received “two” communications from the executive county superintendent (who is employed by the state Department of Education) “about masks on buses.”

“In fact, I was initially very cautious about putting out a statement (about masking on school buses) because I knew that was a federal mandate and was one of the ones that we have to follow, plus I know there are details and caveats to masks,” Havers said.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an order in January of last year requiring masks to be worn by all people “while on public transportation or in hubs such as airports, bus terminals and train stations.” The order includes school buses.

However, according to several media outlets, some school districts throughout the U.S. have recently decided on their own to disregard that federal order, including Buford City Schools in Georgia. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution noted that the Buford district leadership decided it was time to stop enforcing the order due to declining case counts. The newspaper pointed out that much of the CDC’s guidance is not binding.

The CDC reportedly did not return the Constitution’s requests for comment about possible consequences school districts could face if they fail to obey its order, but the newspaper reported that the Georgia Department of Public Health maintained it was not in a position to enforce the CDC’s order, with the Constitution reporting it is up to states to decide whether to implement their own orders based on its scientists’ recommendations.

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Jade Fulce, a spokesman for the CDC, did, however, respond on Feb. 23 to the Pine Barrens Tribune’s inquiry that asked what entity is charged with enforcing the federal mandate and whether it might be lifted soon given the decline in COVID case counts, writing, “As always, the CDC is regularly reviewing our guidance to ensure we are providing sciencebased recommendations that are most relevant for each moment of the pandemic.”

“We will communicate any updates on our mask recommendations publicly if and/ or when they change,” Fulce added.

An inquiry placed with the New Jersey Department of Health by this newspaper about how it views the CDC’s order in relation to school busing and whether it believes it can act as an enforcement agency on the CDC’s behalf was referred to Murphy’s press secretary, Alyana Alfaro-Post.

“School buses are subject to federal masking regulations,” Alfaro-Post told this newspaper on Feb. 22.

The governor’s press secretary then pointed to a section of a “Frequently Asked Questions” webpage that is part of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s website headlined “Wearing of Face Masks While on Conveyances and at Transportation Hubs.”

“Yes, school bus operators, including operations by public school districts, and their passengers are required to wear masks as defined by the order issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,” states the section pointed out by Alfaro-Post. “The CDC order provides limited exemptions to the mask requirement for certain small categories of individuals, including: children under the age of 2; persons with disabilities who cannot wear a mask, or cannot safely wear a mask because of a disability as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act (42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq.); and persons for whom wearing a mask would create a risk See MASKS/ Page 11

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Jennifer Soto, a teacher at DenboCrichton Elementary School, noted during the Feb. 17 Pemberton school board meeting that “the pandemic has left many of our students with a drastic decline in social skills, struggles with self-regulation and emotional control, increased behavioral outbursts, violence and aggression, and defiance and disrespect.”

She added that “no one at any level of education is having an easy go of navigating COVID decisions” and that decisions pertaining to the pandemic (including shutting schools down completely at the end of the 201920 school year and then reopening them with remote learning options in the 2020-21 school year) “have been made that have impacted our students in ways that we will see the consequences of for years to come.”

“It’s sad that our students are struggling so much after time spent at home with their families,” Soto declared. “If anything, this highlights just how far beyond the curriculum and job description a teacher’s role has gone.”

According to Soto, Denbo-Crichton is “understaffed with school counselors to manage these increased needs.” As a result, she contended, “this has left your teachers, counselors, school support staff, nurses, and building administrators with symptoms of secondary traumatic stress and burnout,” including “increased heart rate and blood pressure, difficulty sleeping, and feelings of sadness and frustration.”

“It is so hard to juggle social emotional wellness, character education, mindfulness breaks and our rigorous curriculum,” Soto maintained. “We are pretending as though academic gaps don’t exist and we can teach our curriculum as normal, which adds to students’ frustration and stress. We, as a district, are also ignoring the fact that brains in fight or flight mode cannot learn and retain new information.

“Once again, I am asking you to step back and look at the big picture. Our scholars are struggling, and your staff is struggling. We need to address ‘Maslow before Bloom.’”

(According to Google, ‘Maslow before Bloom’ is a phrase that discusses American psychologist Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and American educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom’s educational learning objectives. More specifically, the saying suggests that people need to fulfill their basic needs before pursuing academic learning.)

Soto pointed to “ideas” that “other districts” in the U.S. recently implemented to alleviate both the impact of staffing shortages brought on by the pandemic, as well as “pandemic fatigue,” including “four-day work weeks (instead of five), half day weeks, or even just adding in a half day once per

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“We ne e d t he t i me a nd sp a c e to decompress and so do our scholars,” Soto asserted.

Both Denbo-Cr ichton parents and teachers have poi nted out at re c ent Pemberton school board meetings that there are currently only two school counselors for approximately 850 students and 150 staff members there. Soto pointed out that the American School Counselor Association (ASCA)’s “re c om mende d student to counselor ratio” is 250:1, and at DenboCrichton “we are at 425:1, nearly double-and much higher than the state average of 337:1.”

The teacher maintained that having the ability to send students to a “mindfulness/ meditation/yoga coach” with a “dedicated” space for such activities in each school could de-escalate situations “before a behavior becomes so out of control it transitions to a discipline referral or worse.”

Havers, in responding to the concerns of both McCormick and Soto by pointing to the action being taken by the Pemberton school board during its Feb. 17 workshop meeting to hire ten interim school security guards and a school social worker “for the remainder of the school year,” pointed out that the social worker would be assigned to Denbo-Crichton “to help address the needs of students there.”

Additionally, he pointed to an action item scheduled for the board’s Feb. 24 regular meeting to add three early dismissal days to the current school year calendar “for our teachers to collaborate with each other.”

“Even those three days concerns me because I know, for a fact, it will impact parents,” Havers asserted. “There will be parents who will be very concerned because it makes it harder for them to manage.”

As for “mindfulness breaks,” he noted, they “should be brought in by the teacher when necessary.”

“If they have a situation that arises, I certainly think they need to use a talking circle (a technique for proactively building the skills and relationships students will need when challenges arise), use a brain break (through GoNoodle, a website that provides a variety of videos to get kids up and moving), or use a mindfulness activity,” Havers said.

The superintendent. who has not only dealt with staffing shortages brought on by the pandemic, but has had to also layoff staffers because of state aid reductions, contended that he would “love to make those ten security guards” that will be hired “permanent” and would “love to add more staff,” and met with several officials recently, including local 8th Legislative District Senator Jean Stanfield, “to ask for a pause in S-2” or the school funding formula enacted in 2018 that has determined the

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aid allocation since then to the Pemberton district, among others in the state.

“I am going to keep advocating to get more funding so we can better support our kids,” Havers declared.

Havers, last month, announced that the Pemberton district, at his direction, to bring the behavioral and mental health crisis under control, is increasing the number of “outof-district placements,” placing principals and assistant principals on school buses that are “repeatedly having trouble” and issuing “bus suspensions.”

One board member pointed out that an action item listed for Feb. 24 entailed a student involved in a “third founded HIB (Harassment, Intimidation & Bullying)” incident, and inquired what is going to be done to prevent a fourth such incident involving that particular student. Havers responded that the student at issue is facing a “superintendent’s hearing.”

This newspaper previously reported that the Pemberton school board’s January sessions featured teachers and nurses assailing the “top” and “upper” administration of the Pemberton school district for its response to the Coronavirus pandemic, as well as grievances over a recently-implemented policy that prevents teachers from assigning students with a grade lower than a 55 on an assignment, even if they cheat, or don’t turn in or complete them.

The latter was raised again on Feb. 17, this time by McCormick, who contended “this is not only unfair to students who are doing their assignments, but those not doing them because it is not holding them accountable for their decisions not to do them.”

“It is also causing teachers to push through students, causing students to fall behind even more due to a lack of understanding materials and such,” McCormick added.

“As it stands, our students are already struggling and pushing them to a grade they are not prepared for is only going to worsen the problem, as well as the scores the administration looks at and continues to compare quarterly. We have to help our students in another way that will actually shrink the learning loss for real.”

Havers, in a rebuttal to those remarks from McCormick, again defended the controversial policy, maintaining that he “does not think a 55 is a reward for students” but rather is “a failing grade.”

“If you look at a ‘C’ student, who maybe is not an ‘A’ student, but is doing their best, and their best is a 75, and they make a mistake or make a poor decision to not do an assignment, and they get a zero, in order to come back up to get a ‘C minus,’ they would need to get 29 more 75s,” Havers maintained.

“So, that one zero for that 75-student pretty much does them in – in terms of improving their grade.”

Additionally, Havers took a moment on Feb. 17 to “be clear about something,” addressing

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“a statement I heard was made” that claimed at the preceding board meeting he said that “teachers should teach the exact same way.”

“I never said that!” forcefully declared Havers. “I would never say, ‘All teachers should teach the exact same way.’ Teachers shou ld b e teach i ng the same power standards. Those power standards are often selected with the feedback from teachers.

You should be agreeing with your colleagues on the essential learning targets. That should be agreed to – what the expectations are for the successes of learning targets and Common Forms of Assessments. That should be agreed to by the team and exact.

“The teaching strategies – that doesn’t have to be exactly the same. As a matter of fact, it is good when people try different teaching strategies, because you learn from each other.

But make no doubt about it, if I am working with my colleagues … and see (this teacher) is having his students master a skill and I am not, I want to know what he is doing. I then would want to try it because I would want to give my kids an opportunity to be successful as well. That is the goal of Common Forms of Assessments (CFAs) and Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).”

The beginning of the Feb. 17 workshop meeting, however, appeared to respond more broadly to the recent critics of the upper administration, with five of the eight top district administrators delivering a lengthy presentation to the Pemberton school board about how the district was either “continuing to progress towards” or meeting the goals and objectives of the district’s Strategic Plan for the period of 2019 to 2022.

In touching on the first goal, “Delivering Exc eptional Instr uction,” Gian netti declared, “That is what we do every day!”

The assistant superintendent pointed out that one objective of that goal is to “improve the achievement of all students by providing rigorous, relevant effective curriculum, instruction and assessment,” and that in helping to fulfill it, the district added a Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) program for students in grades 3-5.

“As a result, the district now has a STEAM and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) program in grades 3-12,” Giannetti pointed out.

The use of “student data notebooks” also began this school year “in the elementary schools,” ac cording to the assistant superintendent.

“Each student has their ow n data notebook where they can track the progress of their own learning, or life skills,” said Giannetti in explaining how the notebooks work. “They now have the ability to set goals, highlight their daily progress and then reflect on their progress at the end of the month or marking period.”

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(Continued from Page 8) cited is that students can now color in the days they are present in school, keeping track of their attendance, and “then at the end of the marking period, they can reflect on their progress toward their attendance goal.”

“D i f fe r e nt i at e d i n st r u c t ion,” sh e maintained is now “more important than ever” in the wake of the pandemic “to meet the diverse needs of our students,” and to do so, “teachers use a variety of formulative learning assessments,” including PLCs. “PLCs then identi fy key le ar n i ng objectives and curriculum standards for that grade level,” Giannetti said. “PLCs then create Common Forms of Assessments, which are called CFAs, to assess the learning of key targets and develop a common criteria, and define what mastery will look like in terms of student performance.”

Those assessments, she maintained, help teachers determine what students will “need more help” and “more enrichment.”

The district is also “continuing to progress towards” meeting the aforementioned goal, Giannetti maintained, by “constantly rev isi ng it s cu r r icu lu m” to i nclude “Standard Nine,” which focuses on “21st Century-standard competencies.”

The “second objective under the goal,” Giannetti pointed out, is to “support the integration of technology as a tool for learning in every classroom in the district,” which she contended the district “is on target” for meeting.

The district, she pointed out, has phased out iPads in favor of Chromebooks in grades 3-5, “which is in alignment with grades 6-12.”

She then pointed to the different platforms that were used to “deliver instruction” during virtual learning at the height of the pandemic.

“It was a bit challenging as our elementary students were using one platform and our secondary students another,” Giannetti a ck nowle dge d. “T h is ye ar we have implemented the use of a single platform districtwide, which is Google Meet, which helps us maintain consistency, clear procedures and expectations across all grade levels.”

The district, she noted, plans to offer a “STEAM camp” over the summer “for all students in grades 3-8” to “further inspire and ignite inquiry, which could help our students identify a path in one of these career clusters.”

A third objective under the first goal, “provide multiple pathways that prepare students for college, a career and a meaningful life,” according to Giannetti, is being met, in part, by Eder Joseph, principal of Pemberton high, initiating a “senior survey” for all high school seniors “to assess their experiences from when they began school, through their senior year.”

He then “uses that information,” according to the assistant superintendent, “to make

improvements.”

One example cited by Giannetti is that seniors had recently responded through a survey that they “needed more support,” so Joseph “created a Peer Mentorship Program” for incoming freshmen.

“Also, this year, the district applied for the (state’s) Seal of Biliteracy program,” Giannetti said. “The Seal of Biliteracy recognizes students who obtain a certain level of biliteracy in two world languages.

“Further more, the high school has expanded its Medical Arts Program to include a nursing assistant program. This year, we instituted a job shadowing program with Deborah Heart and Lung Center where students in our nursing program spend two days a week learning hands-on job skills to become CNAs upon graduation.”

In discussing the fourth objective under the first goal, “build district capacity and create systems to meet and support the socialemotional needs of students,” Giannetti maintained that offering “mental health supports” on the “road back to recovery” from the pandemic “had to be a priority.”

“Over the summer, Rita Jenkins, assistant director of School Counseling/Health Services, worked with our youth-based mental health services agency, which is Legacy, to create a districtwide system to create mental health check-ins for students,” the assistant superintendent said. “The system provides a tier approach.”

That approach, Giannetti explained, involves “academic, attendance, mood and social behaviors” where “teachers can identify 70 deviations from the typical behaviors in these four areas.”

The assistant superintendent maintained that “an electronics system” was “put in place” to “deliver referrals to school counselors.”

“Upon receipt of a referral, counselors utilize a PASS system, which is a Pupil Attitudes to School And Self-School assessment to address barriers to learning,” Giannetti said. “For students who require outside school services, we partnered with Care Solace, an online resource offering live, 24-hours-a-day, 7-day-a-week services and helps to locate and coordinate mental health programs. Care Solace is open and available to our entire school community.”

The “talking circles” (which Havers mentioned in responding to the Feb. 17 public comments), according to Giannetti, “focus on self-regulation, environment and culture.”

“Talking circles is just that – circles that create a safe environment, where each member of the circle has an opportunity to contribute,” the assistant superintendent contended. “They are used for problem solving and decision making.”

School counselors, Giannetti pointed out, have created “targeted counseling groups” that are based “on the needs of students in each particular school,” with “some examples being grief, self-regulation, school

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“We continue to evaluate how we can address the needs of the school community,” the assistant superintendent declared.

The other goals highlighted in the presentation by Pemberton Schools Media Services Coordinator Jeannie Mignella, Business Administrator Daniel Smith, Chief of Security Joseph Bowen, and Director of Technology and Digital Learning Michael A. Procopio included, “Engage Our Community – Improve and/or Strengthen Community Outreach Activities at the Administrative Level (preschool home visits were conducted, a brand-new television studio made its debut, incoming students were invited to Pemberton high over pasta for a night of ‘Pastabilities,’ and staff surprised veterans at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst with student-created cards on Veteran’s Day, as well as had a local Battalion march to one of the district schools to pay a visit to students),” “Remain Fiscally Responsible,” and “Provide Outstanding Facilities.”

“We’re really excited that the township is working to increase ratables,” said Smith in highlighting how he is working with both Pemberton Township Mayor David Patriarca and Business Administrator Daniel Hornickel in addressing the school funding issue. “That will help us down the road.”

Smith noted that the “hardest objective” in the strategic plan, is to “provide budget r e du c t ion r e c om m e nd at ion s to t h e administrative team and board that impact students and instruction the least.”

“Every year this objective has gotten a little harder,” Smith contended. “We are trying to balance everything with student needs being met. Right now, the 2022-23 school year budget is shaping up to be pretty good, but we are at a point where it is getting very difficult as we go through each budget to determine what we can reduce, what we move around and what we can do without.”

The school business adm inistrator declared at one point on Feb. 17 that “while we have been making reductions,” the district administration has “stayed away from the classroom.”

Smith, in another presentation to the Pemberton school board last month, noted that the Pemberton district, since the new school funding formula was implemented, “was entering year five of the seven-year phase-out of our state-aid” and had already “lost just under $12 million in the first four years of S-2.” The district, he noted, is “on track” to lose some $24 million in state aid by the 2025-26 school year.

District staffers, as this newspaper previously reported, have already decried the reductions in staff that have been made, claiming they are actually having an impact in the classroom.

Following the Feb. 17 strategic plan presentation, Robert Horn, president of the Pemberton Township Education

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Association (PTEA), noted that he recently read an article in Forbes Magazine titled, “Why Education is About to Reach a Crisis of Epic Proportions.”

“According to a recent survey quoted in the article, ‘48 percent of teachers admitted that they had considered quitting within the last 30 days,’” Horn recounted. “‘Of that number, 34 percent said they were thinking about leaving the profession entirely.’ This is an ominous warning about the future of public education.”

Horn then pointed out that the Pemberton school board has “heard from our staff members throughout the year about the many factors that are causing our members to question their futures in Pemberton Schools as well,” including “an impossible workload caused by budget cuts, COVID, and staff shortages, (as well as) lack of time for self-care, too much emphasis on testing and data collection interfering with the staff’s ability to focus on our students’ mental health and social development, a toxic work environment, lack of input into educational initiatives, and out-of-control student behavior.”

The PTEA president maintained that “instead of this crisis being a rallying cry to work together to mitigate the damage and find a sustainable road forward,” the responses from the Pemberton school board and administration to the association members who have spoken out have “typically been very defensive, dismissive, and condescending.”

“If we continue on the current trajectory, you are going to lose a slew of wonderful, talented, dedicated educators and staff members,” Horn warned. “They will look for employment in other districts, or in other careers. The potential loss of these staff members and having a revolving door of inexperienced educators and staff will be devastating to our students and the ability of our school district to provide consistently excellent education.”

The Feb. 17 meeting concluded with Board Member Carmen Bivins revealing that her colleague, Terry Maldonado, the secondlongest serving member of the board, had recently lost her mother. She then offered her condolences.

Maldonado, chair of the Pemberton school board’s policy committee, returned to the dais on Feb. 17, after last being present during the board’s reorganization meeting when she lost to Wanda Knox in a nonunanimous vote to retain the role of vice president.

Maldonado explained that the “lifealtering event” of losing her mom, however, was the reason she was absent from the last couple Pemberton school board sessions and maintained “family comes first.”

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all the other fun-loving things that go zipping by” on township streets in the Presidential Lakes section of the municipality were having on their health and ability to sleep, and how riding the equipment was reportedly being used “as an excuse” by individuals “to commit high crimes in this area.”

Additionally, the Pemberton Township Police Department posted a “warning” on its social media pages in 2020 that “due to the number of complaints received by residents, the police department has been actively investigating reports of quads and dirt bikes driving erratically in the streets throughout the township,” adding that “if you are found to be operating a quad or dirt bike in violation of New Jersey state statutes on a roadway, you will be issued a traffic summons” and “if you run from us when we try to stop you, we will investigate, and if you’re identified, you could face charges of eluding, which is up to a second-degree charge.”

David King, a now-former acting police chief for Pemberton Police, who currently leads the department’s Administrative Division as a lieutenant, noted last September that the township, for 2021, had temporarily seized nearly two-dozen quads and ATVs. But now, according to a description provided by the governor’s office of Senate Bill 4080, the newly-enacted legislation authorizes municipalities to further address “certain unlawful operations of all-terrain vehicles and dirt bikes through (permanent) seizure” and also authorizes, in certain circumstances, “destruction of vehicles.”

“The existing law enabled temporary confiscation of ATVs and dirt bikes, coupled with the payment of fines,” Pemberton Business Administrator and Police Director Daniel Hornickel explained to this newspaper on Feb. 22. “The amendment to the state law allows us to seek permanent forfeiture, where the police can show that the use of the vehicle presents a danger to the health, safety or wellbeing of the public.”

Several residents attending the Feb. 16 Pemberton Township Council meeting, and who spoke during a public hearing on the ordinance entitled “Prohibited Operation and Forfeiture,” said that they supported the measure overall, but wanted a provision or two added, especially so that first-time offenders who make a “mistake” and were just being “dumb” would not have their motorized vehicles permanently taken, giving them an opportunity for a second chance.

However, another resident who spoke said she was undecided on whether she supported the law, contending she would have to read it over, but asked what the possibility was of creating an ATV park where local riders can go, while another man adamantly supported

WWW.PINEBARRENSTRIBUNE.COM it without any changes, maintaining parents have a responsibility to ensure that ATVs and dirt bikes remain under lock and key until they can be transported to an area where riding them is legal.

Resident Michelle Forman, who declared she was undecided, asked if council could add a provision to the law that “adds bicycles to this” and addresses “‘swervers.’” Forman contended that groups of bicyclists have been “coming up right to your car” throughout Pemberton in an attempt to “try to scare you to think that you are going to kill them.”

She contended that such “very dangerous” incidents have happened to her recently near a lake and Wawa in the municipality.

Pemberton Police had posted a second warning to its social media pages in 2021 regarding “numerous complaints” it received “in reference to groups of juveniles riding bicycles aggressively in traffic throughout the township.”

“It is our understanding that these individuals are ‘swerving’ or intentionally riding their bicycles, often in a wheelie, in the path of traffic, while performing various tricks,” the police department noted.

Forman, in referencing such behavior, declared, “It’s scary.”

“They could get hurt,” she maintained.

“When I called the police, they said there was nothing they could really do about it.”

Mayor David Patriarca, in response, noted that he has “gotten numerous complaints” about the “bike crew that is riding around on these bikes” and police have “seized quite a few of these bikes and had parents come in to pick up these young individuals and their bikes,” but that the ordinance at issue is “for motorized vehicles.”

“And we are looking to create something where we can forfeit those motorized vehicles from the individuals who are racing up and down Presidential Lakes all night long, as well as Clubhouse Road, N. Lakeshore Drive, in addition to riding around the lake (Mirror Lake),” Patriarca added.

The mayor noted that “if we are able to catch them,” then “we will take their $4,000 or $5,000 vehicle.”

“I just don’t understand why a parent would buy a $4,000 vehicle for their child when they live on an 80-foot by 100-foot lot, and then they give them the keys and say, ‘Go out and play,’” Patriarca asserted. “Where are they going to ride this thing? And that is what this is addressing.”

Councilman Paul Detrick, in response to a question from Forman, contended that “it is not legal to ride these vehicles in the state forest,” either, in addition to public streets, highways and rights-of-ways, including in Whitesbog, which he noted is mostly statecontrolled forestlands.

“Everyone has been trying to do things (add activities and recreational amenities) for the kids,” Forman said. “Has anybody considered opening some kind of ATV park

for these four-wheelers to be driven? They (the kids) love it (riding such vehicles). You can’t stop these kids! It (the riding of ATVs) is (occurring) all over! They just love it, and there is no real place for them to go!”

Forman added that by having a park for ATVs, it might better deter area youth from riding in the streets.

“Is it that you don’t want one because of liability?” asked Forman in trying to solicit a response from township officials.

Patriarca contended that there are “all sorts” of “pros and cons” to building an ATV park, but that “liability is probably at the top of the list” as far as a “con.” Additionally, the mayor maintained, a “large tract of land” is needed for such a park and “most of the land here is state forest.”

“We don’t have large tracts of that nature to create a park of this size,” Patriarca said.

Detrick noted that “people can still ride these vehicles on their own property” or “on another property with the permission of a property owner.”

“So, if they find somebody who has a farm or something, who will let them ride their ATV to their heart’s content, there is nothing wrong with that,” Detrick said. “They just can’t go on public streets, or in the state forests.”

Hornickel pointed out that the township has conducted “temporary seizures” and issued fines to those riding illegally, “but for some people that doesn’t work.”

“We have been here for several council meetings with people coming in, complaining about quads racing up and down their street,” the business administrator recounted.

Patriarca noted that the current municipal law, up until this point, “doesn’t allow us to take their vehicles and keep them,” and “that is what we are trying to do here.”

“We have taken vehicles, and we have given them back and we have had to take them again,” said Patriarca of the reason why the township is now pursuing permanent forfeiture of ATVs and dirt bikes.

The one-page ordinance does not detail a criterion for confiscation, but rather leaves it at the discretion of police, which led some residents to believe there is the possibility that permanent forfeiture could conceivably occur even for a first-time offense.

Resident Danny Frazer said that he could see the township forfeiting ATVs and dirt bikes “maybe two or three times” after a person violates the prohibition, but not after only “one time.”

Agreeing with that viewpoint was resident Fred Meyers, who maintained that he supported the ordinance if “one change” could be made that adds a provision, “‘If it is your first time doing it, you won’t forfeit.’”

Myers, in making his case, recounted a time when he was younger and made the “mistake” of taking a dirt bike to Whitesbog and “got pulled over by police.”

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Patriarca emphasized that police would “use their discretion” and maintained that forfeiture would most likely come into play only when authorities have to do “an extensive amount of work” or “parents give you a hard time.”

“An officer is going to use this authority to take vehicles to prevent a problem in the future,” the mayor declared. “But they just don’t go out and seize anything and everything. That is not the intent.”

Myers noted in response that he “just wants to make sure” that “they don’t take a $5,000 dirt bike away” from “somebody who makes a (one-time) bad decision.”

Resident Justine Miller, who maintained that “dirt bikes and ATVs are racing up and down” her street in the Country Lakes section of Pemberton “all times of the day,” and therefore she was “also in favor” of the ordinance, recounted that there was an incident just a few weeks prior to the latest council meeting in which a “very good friend” who lives in Presidential Lakes was raking leaves with his dog nearby when “a kid came flying down in an ATV and killed their dog.”

Miller described the incident as “very traumatic,” one that Council President Gaye Burton noted she had not yet heard about, but called “terrible” upon learning of it from Miller during the council meeting.

That being said, according to Miller, “kids can be dumb” and if they “did something for the first time,” perhaps permanent forfeiture shouldn’t occur.

Township Solicitor Andrew “Andy” Bayer, in response, asked what if the first “mistake” committed by someone is “criminally egregious,” pointing to the example Miller had just cited in which a dog was killed.

“If a kid is racing down the street at 50 mph for the first time, we shouldn’t take it then?” Gardner asked. “We should take it!”

Miller responded that she believed “you should use discretion,” but recognized that “racing down the street at 50 mph is a problem.”

Gardner, in responding to the calls for some sort of second-chance provision, asserted that he thinks both the kids and parents are “already aware of what is allowed in the township” when the purchases of ATVs and dirt bikes are made.

“I am assuming they are aware of what they are doing,” he contended.

Miller replied, “possibly,” with Gardner quipping, “I’m going to go with, ‘They are aware.’”

“If you bought something for $5,000 and know they are not allowed in the township, why purchase it in the first place?” Gardner asked.

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that the existing state law prescribes that for a first offense, a “dirt bike shall be impounded for not less than 7 days and released to the registered owner with a payment of a fee up to $500,” and “the impoundments then go on for second and subsequent offenses.”

“So, you get one free pass in that sense,” Bayer added.

Hornickel later told this newspaper that “since the decision to pursue forfeiture is dependent upon getting a (county) prosecutor to file the application, the police department is going to have to abide by any guidelines the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office may establish for such requests.”

Resident John Lippincott maintained during the Feb. 16 council meeting that “we are talking about two different generations here” and called the “ones breaking the law,” from his experience, “very arrogant,” including the “ones speeding around” and “especially the ones on bicycles.”

“They should be taken away permanently as far as I am concerned!” Lippincott declared.

Michael Sawka, another resident who spoke during the meeting, was blunter, contending there is no excuse for not knowing “what your kids are doing 24/7.”

“You bought that ATV, so put a chain and lock on it with a combination the kids don’t know!” he contended. “You have control – you are the parent. If they do something wrong, and it gets confiscated and forfeited for good, or gets sold at auction, oh well, it is your fault! You screwed up!”

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It was also noted that in an “FAQ concerning the CDC Order,” the “CDC states that passengers and drivers on school buses must wear a mask unless the driver is the only person on the bus.”

“This requirement applies to all school buses, whether publicly or privately owned,” the webpage states.

Havers said that in moving forward, he “will continue to evaluate the situation” in all district schools (as far as COVID positivity rates, close contacts, etc.), as well as in the county, and “will consider all recommendations from our

excuses for people breaking the law” and declared that “if you want an ATV, or want your kids to have one,” then “go buy a trailer also and get a hitch on your car” to transport them to where they are legally allowed.

“Don’t give them the keys or switch, or whatever, and have them ride around town on the roads, killing dogs … and those things are loud,” Sawka added.

Gardner pointed to his observations that “not just kids” are riding ATVs and dirt bikes, “but adults too,” and Burton added that both kids and adults have been observed riding them “without helmets on.” Councilwoman Elisabeth McCartney then concluded she “thinks this (ordinance) promotes safety for the residents,” pointing out the state Senate bill says such illegal activity poses an “immediate threat.” The measure was then passed by council without the suggested provisions.

Dan Haulings, a Pemberton resident who described to council that he witnessed in Philadelphia “where you literally have hundreds of these things” and that he “can’t begin to tell you how many surrounded us, even on the sidewalks, etc.,” declared, “Maybe we can be a beacon of hope for Philadelphia.”

In area social media groups, however, reaction to the ordinance was far more critical, with one person contending “Pemberton’s ATV problem is (only) going to get bigger now,” because those riding them will now be more likely to flee police out of fear their equipment will be confiscated.

“Now to think of all the people and young children who will do anything to escape the police – their lives will be on the Pemberton board’s hands,” that person declared, also comparing forfeiture to stealing from “hardworking people” and asking what happened to being “an American.” county department of health in determining any future modifications.”

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“It was certainly a new learning experience for our students, and an especially important one because this is the town where they live,” Scussa said. “And all of this was done during the pandemic.”

That particular educational exercise, in fact, jibes rather well with some of the characterizations found on Scussa’s LinkedIn page: “Dedicated to optimizing the ability of all teachers to promote student achievement,” “Supporter of teachers through professional development and observational feedback,” and “Creator of a collaborative vision to promote a successful school experience for all children.”

But being able to turn that vision into reality given the challenges of coping with the COVID crisis, she indicated, has taken some strategic navigation.

“Due to some research we did prior to students coming back in September, we pro-actively planned for a gap in learning, which enabled us to plan our curriculum and use student-assessment data to recraft our pacing guides in order to allow teachers to revisit concepts that we saw were deficits in some areas,” Scussa told this newspaper.

As a result of such efforts, Scussa maintained, the Medford school system has seen any learning gaps begin to close.

The teachers, she added, have been working

especially hard to target instructions to students who are struggling.

“We have teachers who work harder than any I have ever seen,” she asserted.

And it isn’t only the faculty with whom the new superintendent strives to form a “collaborative vision,” but parents in the district as well.

“Along with very dedicated teachers, we have a very involved community of families,” Scussa noted.

Having until recently been in the ranks of those parents herself, she pointed out, has given her a perspective that many administrators might not have, and has helped make her especially receptive to their concerns.

That confluence of home and classroom influences is something Scussa believes has enabled the Medford school system to produce “some of the brightest and bestinformed students with whom I have ever worked,” with much of the credit going to her predecessor, Dr. Joseph Del Rossi, who led the district for nearly two decades and retired after what she describes as a “long, wonderful career in education.”

Scussa’s approach to the job is one she characterized as using the wide-ranging opportunities technology offers to not only expand students’ abilities to acquire knowledge, but to “become decision makers and problem solvers.”

“In a time of what is referred to in education as ‘21st Century learning,’ when we have data and facts available at the fingertips of our students at all times, part of our responsibility as educators is to teach them to apply that information,” Scussa maintained.

“We want them to know how to research, to cite a position on a certain topic, and to be able to apply it to the real world.”

Whereas when she was in grade school, she had her own set of encyclopedias at home, she noted, today’s students carry around a cellphone that gives them one at their fingertips. Beyond accessing such information, she contended, they must be taught how to interpret all that information and examine its sources to determine their validity. Such responsibilities, she said, have raised the business of educating children to an entirely different level than that of previous years.

“Students are bombarded with information every day, through the Internet and social media,” Scussa pointed out. “And it is important for schools to work with parents to teach children how to navigate even difficult topics or situations.”

Having a resource like YouTube, she pointed out, is particularly beneficial in providing students with on-demand videos that allow them the opportunity to learn about places they have never visited or events they have never experienced – or, conversely, things of historical significance that took place in their own back yard, such as Dr. James Still’s legendary practice.

Anytime learning can be made relevant for elementary or middle school children, she said, it helps them to establish “important connections” to their own lives.

At the same time, however, Scussa doesn’t want more traditional learning avenues to become lost in cyberspace – especially reading, given that she spent nearly eight years as a reading specialist for Evesham

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“We encourage students to read, and not just one particular type of book, but multiple genres,” she said. “And we want them to read articles as well. It all depends, of course, on their grade level and interests. We find some students prefer nonfiction, while others enjoy both dystopian fiction and realistic fiction.

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“Our teachers all recognize that reading is a priority and infuse best practices of literacy instruction through all content areas,” she added.

On a personal level, the new superintendent couldn’t be more elated to have been given a leadership position in both the community and school system that she identifies with, after having had positions in several other districts, the last of which was assistant superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction in New Brunswick public schools (having gone from a two-hour commute to an eight-minute one).

“It’s great to be home for so many reasons,” she declared. “This is the community I grew up in, I’ve raised my children in. All three went through Medford schools. I went through Medford schools. In fact, I was in the first kindergarten class at Cranberry Pines in 1979, the year that it opened.

“Last year, while I was director of curriculum, I got to watch my daughter walk across the field and get her eighthgrade diploma,” she recalled. “It was one of the most wonderful moments of my life.”

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