Tuesday, May 12, 2020

What Is Going on At Wallace School? Chronic Low Scores and Serious Parental Concerns with Special Services

Wallace School- Hoboken, NJ 
While the Hoboken Board of Education recently passed the largest budget increase in well over a decade, it may be time to look around at the Hoboken Public Schools and see how the schools were doing pre-COVID-19 pandemic. Below is some data from 2020 on student enrollment, student:teacher ratio, minority enrollment, and proficiency rankings in mathematics and reading (test scores). 

 In addition, I am also including all the comments that were posted to the website Public School Review pre-pandemic. The Quick Stats 2020 (below) and comments stand in stark contrast to the information conveyed at the monthly Hoboken Board of Education meetings. At these meetings it is either no news or good news. Referred to by some as the "all good news, all the time" meetings where little serious discussion is ever engaged in discussing the below average education that has become the status quo in the Hoboken Public Schools under "reform" Board of Education leadership since 2009. 

 There is certainly a place for cheerleading and being positive about education. But there is also a time for responsibility and being driven by data that CLEARLY and EMPHATICALLY states that quality education is not taking place here. 

 Here is a detailed analysis of Wallace School from October of 2019 which details and documents some serious concerns about the academic program at this school. CLICK HERE
Parental Comment Posted on Great School (1/27/19)
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 More on the budget and the dubious claim of  "rising enrollment" will be coming soon. For now, this information on Wallace School is well worth some examination. 





Quick Stats (2020)
The school unfortunately operates within a school system that is self referential and not student centric. That becomes evident when problems arise with a student’s performance because of a learning disability. The school is unable and unwilling to provide student-centered solutions as is evidenced by the inability to simply and seemlessly build on previous years’ successes if they occur. Competence issues are never addressed properly and accountability is non existent especially among special education case managers. This has been a bad experience that has lead us to the decision to move outside the school district. -Submitted by a Parent pre-pandemic 

School Reviews

  1.67 out of 5  (3 reviews)
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The director of the special service is totally heartless and lie about things he promised to do but never did. Stay away from this school if your child is a special needs child. The program is a MESS since the current director of special service come onboard. He is totally not qualified for that job.

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I have to say I am very disappointed with the school this year. The school just removed my daughter's Occupation Therapy without an appropriate evaluation and assessment. I couldn't believe they did that but I guess they just do whatever they want. They don't care about your child.

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My child enrolled in the special education program with Wallace. The program was not bad 3 years ago but was getting worse and worse. The current director of special service is heartless about those kids and keeps reducing service. He also takes advantage of the fact that a lot of parents don't know or are not familiar with education law or the IEP process. They also retaliate parents who speak up or advocate for their children. Stay away from this school. One star is for the kids and teachers/para who work there.

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And....this decline in educational attainment at Wallace School has been going on for a number of years. Scores have never been lower at Wallace. It well past the time to stop the mindless and robotic cheerleading and start dealing with the chronic underperformance taking place. 
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