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Its Brave to Blindly Follow the Law According to BOE

Roxbury BOE meeting
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Your job as an elected official is not to blindly follow government orders. Yes, Board of Education (BOE) members take an oath to follow the constitution and to abide by the laws, legislation and mandates from education officials; however, there is a lot of digression that falls on the BOE as to how they interpret the law. Also they have flexibility when laws are in conflict with each other.

Some of the mandates handed down by the NJ Department of education (NJDOH) and NJ School Board Association (NJSBA) are not very clear and have a lot of wiggle room. Also BOE members can push the issues with the NJDOH and fight on that end to put the pressure on; NOT to blindly agree to everything that’s being pushed down from the governors office to the NJDOE to the NJSBA.

When the laws are in conflict with each other, as a BOE member, you have an OBLIGATION to come up with solutions that meet the expectations for all laws. For example, the mask mandates of 2021 were enforced at the expense of ADA laws (Americans with Disabilities Act). The BOE members could have made resolutions to honor doctor’s notes for kids not to wear masks, but they chose to blindly follow a governor mandate and ignore a federal law.

NO, it is not brave to blindly follow the law, its easy and lazy.

More Interestingly, this same BOE president, Carol Scheneck, was accused of “unethical and most likely illegal practices” when it came to election laws.

“Carol sat in the Senior Center intimidating voters for hours and had a nice 45-plus-minute talk with the Poll Master,” according to Daniel Pope. “She also had the most votes at that polling machine that she was camped at for an extended period … At the very least, this was insanely unethical and pushes close to election violations.”

So apparently she means, follow the rule of law and ethics rules, or not…. depending on how it may benefit you.

There she is, incumbent BOE President of Roxbury bringing coffee and donuts for poll workers and use polling stations as her own personal office, while the polls are open.

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