Great Meadows School firing

Has anyone heard about the firing of Mr Nicinski

I agree with concerned parent. There's no use in creating rumors. Attend the meeting for facts and to express your concern/support.

GMRSD BOE meetings are held at the Middle School, 273 Route 46, Great Meadows, NJ 07838

The next meeting is July 14, 2008 7:30 p.m.

The Workshop Meetings take place in the GMMS Media Center on the 2nd Monday of the month.
Regular Meetings are held the 4th Monday of the month in the GMMS Dining Room.

This information is located at http://www.gmrsd.com/boe.htm

Who was Mr. Nicinski? Central or Middle?

BrotherDog, are you a past BOE member? or current? if not & you want to improve things why not run for the BOE? just a thought.

vincinity;

good thought; thanks!

have worked hard over the years to change things from both the outside, and the inside. can't get much traction either way.

most BOE's are in the tank for the teachers union. his is bad for the educational process as the NJEA is againsta any prorgress in the delivery of educational services.

Great Meadows board of education is mostly comprised of individuals who have a lot of skin in the game. for example, one menber works for the county sheriffs dept and made 99,000/year thre years ago, he happens to married to a teacher who works in p-burg. since that household is bringing in about 200,000/year they have no incentive to negotiate hard with the Great Meadows Teachers Association.

there is another board member in great meadows who works as a professional fireman in morristown, he makes ovr 84,000/year. he has no incentive to negoiate cincessions fro the teachers union. his wife happens to head of the local pto. the teachers have their children hostage, any tough talk at negoiation time will result in retaliation against their kids, (ie. lower grades,)


i could provide more , but you get the picture. these civil servants have no idea how to ange things efficiently. and they have no desire to do so. since their own income cvomes from local, county and state taxes, they do not have a frame of reference on where the rest of us coe from. and no sympathy for it either.

"The question has got to be asked: When all of us work for the state, where will the money come from?"

Uh oh Bro, now you've done it! You absolutely have got to stop looking at the ever increasing spending of Big Government and stop thinking about what the costs are or where the money will come from. Don't you know that the government has an unlimited source of money (you!)? That's what they teach in school today, right? ;)

The problem with the great meadows school board is the board president! She has her own agenda and feels that she alone knows what is best for this district. She has consistently made the wrong choices which she feels benefits her personally. There is obvously something fishy that is going on with the dismissal of Mr. Nicinski. He was an outstanding MS principal and would have made an even better Superintendent. I know of plenty of parents in the district that have expressed their positive feelings regarding Mr. Niciniski to the Board president prior to the last meeting and she completely ignored them since she had already made up her mind and then poisoned other (not all) Board members to agree.Hopefully the truth will come out.....and Mr. Niciniski will indeed get his job back.

I agree with Nicholas. I can't imagine why the board would have made the decision to fire Mr. Nicinski. He is the best thing that has happened to GMRSD. He has done a remarkable job and is a genuinely good guy. He is also a leader in the community, actively involved with the boy scouts, as well as being a pastor at the Waterloo Village church. I desperately hope the board reconsiders and gives him a fair hearing so that the truth can come out. Good luck Mr. Nicinski, many of us are pulling for you and hope that you not only get your job back, but that you take over as superintendent and get GMRSD back on its feet.

Unfortunately the person truly behind all of this is Jason Bing, the Superintendent who is leaving in 2 days and moving on happily, taking his new job in Barnegat. He has somehow convinced certain Board members that Mr. Nicinski needs to go, as he is the one who recommended the termination. He is leaving our school district in a real mess and now we as a community need to pick up the pieces he is leaving behind. We need to do the right thing and see if the new interim superintendent, Dr. Fredriks, can recommend Mr. Nicinski NOT be terminated in 60 days.

BOE has to vote on contracts, and also to renew or extend them, the super just makes recomendations. The BOE spends all the money. this is the law. they (BOE) are in charge of te super, and he reports to them. passing this of on the super is disingenuous, and hides the culpability of our current board, which is loaded up with government employed toadies.

come on now, let's get real 'facts person' , the misinformation train continues to hurdle down the tracks.

In my opinion there is likely much more to the involvement of Jason Bing in the firing of Tim Nicinski. Perhaps Mr. Bing was afraid that his (Bing's) history of mismanagement of this district would be discovered more quickly after he left by someone on the inside rather than by someone new coming in and learning the ropes? Interestingly enough, Bing isn't even his real last last name. If you look at his board contract available on the district website, Bing is his middle name - his real last name isn't nearly as "trendy" or "clever" as "Bing", the one-name signoff that he uses on all of his district-wide emails and memos. Lastly, no one has looked into Mr. Bing's alleged live-in relationship with the young female middle school gym teacher in his district, why would they bother to look closer at anything else? Instead, sadly, they likely took his advice to fire a decent and competent professional like Mr. Nicinski. Very sad for this school district.

Well, what's his real last name? If it's public record you shoul;d be able to tell us.

Last name is Schetelick. You can google him and see the announcement from his new school district.

yes bing has an east european last name that is hard to pronounce and hard to spell rght, that is why he 'opted' for the "Bing" designation. good decision if you ask me.

he makes about 120,000 dollars per year at Great Meadows, down the shore he will make about 142,000 dollars per year. that will go up to 158,000 dollars per year in the fourth year of his contract, AND he gets to live down at the shore.

this is a win, win for him and i wish him good fortune in the next step in his career.

158,000 dollars is a LOT of money to pay any superintendent if you ask me. this whole state is totally out of control. AND it is getting worse each year.

Brother Dog - you don't know him the way most of us do. He is screwing us over and walking out the door with a smile on his face. Do you know how much money he has cost the taxpayers of this community over his tenure here? Not only has he been sued by former staff (and lost), but also families in town.

Reminder:

Tonight - 7:30 board meeting at the Great Meadows Middle School cafeteria. Please attend and voice your concerns!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i do not know about the lawsuits that we as a district have lost due to bing being sued, can you enlighten me?

bing has done plenty of thing s that i have major league problemds with over the years, he moves money arond the dubget like a big game of 3 card montie. the current BOE just 'rubber stamps' everything he wants to do.

they do tis because they do not want to do the work of actually reading, thinking, and considering the material they are presented with. they also do not question anything that he proposes.

this is real bad and give our district a bad name.

BrotherDog -

The superintendent of Mountain Lakes now makes $250,00/year. That said, however, more money is spent per student than most districts in Morris County, and less is spent on teachers/administrators overall, than most districts in Morris County.

As for the stats, it's now ranked 4th best in the state academically, 843rd in the country, with this year's graduating class's college attendance at 99%. I think the breakdown was 39% to "top/elite/competitive colleges" according to Barron's; 45% to 4-year colleges; 15% to 2-year and 1% to work. Pretty impressive so I can't begrudge the guy his salary.

On the other hand.......

BrotherDog -

I agree with you that it is qute a bit of money and only some truly earn it. On the other hand, I would sooner give that kind of money to a school administrator who raises the academic bar in our schools, than to... let's say.... millions upon milllions to professional athletes, some of whom take their money and snort it up their noses, etc., or gangster rappers or, even in his death, Michael Jackson!

It's all about priorities.

justintime -

I couldn't have said it better myself... though I've tried many times and have been attacked and/or chastised for it, simply because I live in ML right now (as a renting poser!). The academic crisis at HHS will ONLY be corrected by FAMILIES.

And, if "keeping up with the Jones'" creates healthy, academic competition, then, bring it on! Whatever it takes to get a kid to succeed academically, have at it!

As for those graduates heading for those "top" colleges, I know a number of them personally, and those kids earned full and/or partial scholarships. In my own case, that will be the ONLY way my child will get there. There are more 'have-nots' in the district than one might realize; the streotype is not the reality.

Great Meadows has been rated a high achieving district under Bing; though I may not agree with all of his decisions, he has demonstrtated complete candor throughout his tenure, maybe too much at times. His past personnel decisions, hiring and firing have been right on, my guess is this last decision was done with students in mind. I do not know Mr. Nisinski but as a public employee myself, a school cannot speak about a personnel issue w/o the employee's consent, which is rarely given by the employee. And school boards such as GM are never "rubber stamp" districts-in fact, they are usually the complete opposite. The board meetings I attended looked like boe members had minds of their own.
when my familiy moved into Indy Mr. Bing was Director, which was @ 6 years ago-so he was in GMRSD for awhile.

ML Laker - Your stats are not the definative stats - according to this list compiled by Newsweek Mountain Lakes HS is rated 1055 in the country. Not bad but there are other NJ schools who are rated higher including West Morris - http://www.newsweek.com/id/201160/?s=N...p;q=2009/rank/1