Board of Education Member Mrs. Ward - 'Your hair is in my soup now.' - let's not jump to judgment!

Here in 'Downtown Edison' where we just went through the ugliest political campaign that I can remember, it's a tad bit sad that we now try to publicly vilify Mrs. Ward of the Board of Education before her opportunity to explain and defend herself.

Hard to understand why anyone would jump to judgment based upon a newspaper article without knowing what she actually wrote in her copious notes, what went on in her meeting with the Administration, Board President and Personnel and what the context was that she wrote it in. Since this is in some stage of litigation, I take it that this will be resolved in a court of law where it should be.

Now, I'm not much of a fan of this Board or of Mrs. Ward's contributions to this Board's actions but I do believe in being fair.

So, I for one, will not pretend to be holier than thou and ask her to resign or seek to have her removed over her choice of selected words to describe something without knowing what she wrote and understanding the full context that she wrote it in.

Here's last night's Board meeting :



Anyhoo, let's not perpetuate the ugliness that went on in this last election. We, all the People of Edison, are better than that in our diversity.