Glen Rock Parent

Glen Rock, NJ's forum for parents to speak out, react, inform and engage

In case you had any doubts…

In a recent interview, a man held captive by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard revealed a point of view we’ve all know for years here in Glen Rock:
New Jersey is heaven on earth.
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Happy Thanksgiving (again).

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Giving thanks!

It’s a short week. Lots of food, fun and family happening this week. Happy Thanksgiving from GlenRockParent.com folks. If you can make it, attend your children’s holiday plays and events. They do love it. There will likely be a lull in activity during this week but we will return to our regularly scheduled programming next [...]

There’s a lot of room for improvement

In most of the communications sent from the Glen Rock school system, they always reference “the web site.” If you need further information, it’s online and available at all times. That’s pretty sweet. Except it’s not. The web site is attrocious. Have you tried finding something on there lately?
The design is dated but, more importantly, [...]

Come to school….but leave the kids at home

While the Glen Rock school system certainly plans plenty of interesting and enriching activities for our kids that include our participation you have to, at times, question the planning and rationale that go into some of these events. Specifically, at issue is the restriction on bringing younger siblings to any of these events. Many of [...]

My kid’s flunking science!

Apparently, a lot of kids, mine included came home with less-than-awesome science assessment grades this week. Now, we all know our kid is the smartest kid ever so how can this be?! Well, in an email received today from Central School’s Sandra Nestor she explains that, “This year is the first year we are implementing [...]

Upcoming Important Dates

Nov. 25 – Early Dismissal
Nov. 26-27 – Thanksgiving Holiday – No School
Dec. 7 -  Early Dismissal – Staff Workshops
Dec. 10 – HSA Meeting

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Have your photo published!

The masthead image on this blog is only temporary. It was the best image I could find of a recognizable Glen Rock landmark in a short search. Do you have a good photo of something instantly recognizable as Glen Rock? Would you like to see it published as the masthead image for this blog? Me [...]

Resources

I’ve started a long list of links on the right side of the home page. The goal for this list is to become a comprehensive, one-stop-shop of resources you can use to get to the important information regarding Glen Rock’s schools.

We’re live!

And with this post we bring GlenRockParent.com to life! Welcome everyone and I hope the site provides you with the resources you need and the conversations you’re looking for. As a parent in Glen Rock I know that I’ve got things I’d like to share with the community. I hope you’ll share your thoughts as well.