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Science. It’s the new black.

According to this brief write-up on NorthJersey.com, the new science and technology wing at Glen Rock High School will be complete by year’s end and is coming in, get this, UNDER budget. According to the article, the new science wing will have:
…nine state-of-the-art laboratories, a computer-aided drawing lab and a greenhouse…
This project came about through [...]

Make-up Fool’s Day

The weather has caused the Glen Rock school system to close a few more time than they’d like this year. This puts them behind the eight ball in getting to the requisite number of academic days needed by law. The decision was made to make up one day during spring break.
Thursday.
This Thursday.
Today.
April Fool’s Day.
The motivation [...]

Class of 2023

This year’s incoming kindergartners are the future Glen Rock High School class of 2023! As if the year 2000 didn’t sound futuristic enough for us, the parents of these children, the year 2023 sounds almost not real. While education and education methods have evolved since we were in primary school, the core interaction model – [...]

The Storm with No Name

How did you fare? Did you lose power? Are you still without power?! That was some storm last weekend and Glen Rock certainly took a beating. From the comfort of our homes perhaps it didn’t seem as vicious as it was (unless of course something fell on to your house). The aftermath however proved to [...]

Central School Kids Helping Haiti as Part of 100th Day Project

Central School is nearing it’s 100th day of classes this year. To commemorate this milestone the kids at the school have split into groups and are putting together efforts based around the number 100. One group has decided they would like to raise funds for the victims of the Haiti earthquake. This group of 1st [...]

I was only doing what you told me!

The following letter was received recently by two Glen Rock parents:

The letter from the principal of the school in essence is reprimanding the parents for keeping their child out of school too many times last year. For those of you familiar, there are very strict guidelines around when your child can and cannot attend school [...]

New year, new school – what do you recommend?

It’s a new year and for many parents in Glen Rock a child will start going to school this year. Preschools are a foundational step in setting your child’s expectations about the joys of social learning and their perceptions of school years to come. It may seem that numbers, colors, shapes and general playtime has [...]

Keep your child at home

And so the cold and flu season is upon us. It’s a tough time of year for parents as we attempt to go about our lives – whether we’re employed full-time, part-time or a full-time parent – and attempt to keep our child on their routine. The petri dishes our children dip in and out [...]

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, [...]

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