http://www.glenrockparent.com Glen Rock, NJ's forum for parents to speak out, react, inform and engage Fri, 24 Dec 2010 12:47:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en do good marketing, llc, a virtual advertising and marketing firm whose headquarters are located in Glen Rock, N.J., has announced its second annual do good day for Wednesday, August 4, 2010. Do good day was established by do good day marketing’s Michael Haviland, whose business philosophy is simply to do good marketing ... http://www.glenrockparent.com/2010/06/30/second-annual-do-good-day-set-for-august-4-2010/ [caption id="attachment_175" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Photo courtesy of the New York Times"][/caption] Today's New York Times shows an article focused on Glen Rock's new engineering in elementary schools program. Check it out! Quoted from the article: Here in Glen Rock, where students have long excelled at math and science, administrators and teachers decided to incorporate ... http://www.glenrockparent.com/2010/06/14/glen-rocks-engineering-program-in-the-new-york-times/ That time is upon us, once again -- the Glen Rock Municipal Pool (ironically not named after anyone, yet) is open for the season. While currently open only on weekends, once the schools let out, it will be open every day. Pass range from $40 for those under 5 to ... http://www.glenrockparent.com/2010/06/06/pool-re-opens-children-rejoice-adults-sweat/ 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 ... http://www.glenrockparent.com/2010/05/06/science-its-the-new-black/ As many of us grew up we learned how to play musical instruments. Some of us even played in bands. Now that we're parents those days may seem long gone but, in reality, there's still the opportunity to make music in between soccer games, school activities and trips to the ... http://www.glenrockparent.com/2010/05/04/any-glen-rock-parent-musicians/ Tomorrow, Tuesday April 20th is election day for the borough of Glen Rock. On the ballot is the school's annual budget. Please remember to vote. It's important that every resident has their say on the programs and plans for the future of our children. There are lots of sites with information ... http://www.glenrockparent.com/2010/04/19/school-budget-elections-tomorrow/ For the past 50+ years Bergen County has shut down on Sundays. Bergen's blue laws are unique to the area and offer, to some, a reprieve from the traffic, noise and general hectic nature of Saturday's business hours. In an effort to plug a budget hole, NJ Governor Christie has ... http://www.glenrockparent.com/2010/04/11/bergen-blue-laws-come-into-question/ 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 ... http://www.glenrockparent.com/2010/04/01/make-up-fools-day/ 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, ... http://www.glenrockparent.com/2010/03/27/class-of-2023/ [caption id="attachment_151" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Photo courtesy of northjersey.com"][/caption] 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 ... http://www.glenrockparent.com/2010/03/20/the-storm-with-no-name/