Lakewood funding case attorney Arthur Lang is set to resign, due to not receiving a promotion he requested from the Board of Education, TLS has learned.
In an email, Arthur Lang wrote to current Board members, copying community leaders – including Rabbi Ben Heinemann, Rabbi Moshe Weisberg, Board attorney Michael Inzelbuch, Committeeman Meir Lichtenstein and others, that he we would be resigning from his current funding lawsuit unless he was promoted.
Mr. Lang made it clear that due to his actions in the lawsuit that has been going on for many years, he deserved the Superintendent position or other administrative positions. Currently, Mr. Lang is a math teacher, and has been seeking promotion to Superintendent or any other job that will pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for several years.
In addition, Mr. Lang in the email advised that he would be putting together a slate of candidates to run in the next election who would help him achieve the educational position he seeks.
TLS reached out to Lang for comment.
What a disgusting establishment-written article!
As much as I’m not a scoop fan (especially for not moderated) I got the email forwarded to me too as someone whose wife works in the district. It happens to be true.
Luzemgayn
I think tls should call inzelbuch for more and to be sure it’s true. I’m sure he’ll give a statement or something.
As a teacher it’s true that Mr. Lang doesn’t get promoted he is a very good math teacher but not administrator material. The law suit is just a head line… everyone knows it won’t accomplish anything just hot air.
This seems rather sudden. He has, however, been doing the work thar the superintendent and administration should have been doing, not to mention our good for nothing assemblymen in Trenton.
This is how the district retaliated against me: 1) I was demoted to the middle school in 2019, 2) I lost my summer school job which I did since 2003, 3) I lost my honors classes and now only have the lower level classes, 4) I lost my extra hour teaching after school, 5) I lost my extra class that paid $1,000 a month, 6) I have been interviewed for assistant principal six times but never hired. I am told by almost every principal that I have been blacklisted by the district.
I have considered suing but I cannot bad-mouth the district at the same time that I am trying to get billions of dollars for it. That would put my interest in having a job above public good.
Aaron Lang
There are surely other reasons for these actions. How are your last few evaluations? Any issues with staff?
Good evaluations. My 2018 was the highest anyone ever got. Issues did not start until 2019 when I was replaced in summer school and demoted to the middle school. We went to PERC and got restored to the high school.
Talking about the bad mouthing the district, your twitter account I’ve been following begs to differ LOL
I was referring to filing a complaint in Court for retaliation against me for exercising my First Amendment right to petition the government. That is not the same as complaining on Twitter.
Probably pretty interesting to note Mr Lang is easily offended by High School graduations where they give the information in both English and Spanish. It bothers him so much he couldn’t even stand it and walked out. But he wants to be an administrator for Lakewood schools??
Actually, I was late to graduation. I did not walk out but stood in back not to draw attention. But now that you mention it, the whole ceremony was in Spanish. The little that was said in English was translated in Spanish. What was said in Spanish was not translated to English.
The purpose of taxpayer funded public school is citizenship. The survival of the republic depends upon it. Gibbon wrote that even though many languages were spoken in the Roman Empire, all interactions with government were in Lakewood. The Romans understood, he wrote, that manners (laws and customs) follow language.
In “Latin” not “Lakewood.”
Yes you were late, you walked in heard the Spanish part and walked out. You didn’t wait to realize the English was being translated for parents that don’t understand. You showed great manners and customs that night and your lack of respect if for nothing else should keep you from being anything more then what you are. You have been a teacher for as long as I can remember taking an onslaught of disrespect from so many students over the years for no other reason than because of your religion. So someone in your shoes having been disrespected shouldn’t have done what you did.
What happened at graduation was that I was standing in back and could not get to the teachers’ seats. The security chief came and told me that Michael asks nicely that I go sit with the teachers. So I did. I’m done with my comments.
You are wrong. First of all, the public school kids always had immense respect for me. I was there in any fight and got between the “gangs.” Secondly, there were only one or two incidents where a student was disrespectful because he was prejudice. Ask any student if the anyone disrespected me. The answer would be no.
I would like to note Lakewood scoop is allowing the unusual back and forth in the comment section is this regular programing or only for select individuals ?
Would you like me to go back and forth with you? Are you feeling left out?
I would, which “friend” are you asking for?
The elephant in the room the lawsuit which he is spearheading which the establishment never believed would go anywhere and therefore didn’t back it. And shows rather to take loans and then more loans and then more. Whether or not the lawsuit had any chance of success please explain how the loan thing works. More than more than more and then what
And even billions more with the need to build hundreds of schools in Jackson and beyond with the Lakewood birth rate of 5,000 a year!
So it sounds like your issue specifically is with our birth rate. I just wanted to highlight that.
Has anyone from the Orthodox community – either leadership or individuals – for once ever thought of what the future of the regions public schools will be like as your community expands into more and more towns? With Lakewood’s birth rate of 5,000 babies a year, hundreds of Orthodox schools will need to be built in our region and maybe other parts of NJ. Are the non-Orthodox supposed to accept that other public schools will go the way of Lakewood and East Ramapo in Rockland County and debt into the billions? I wish your community would try to think of the needs of our children for a change.
Your self-interest is blinding you to some pretty obvious truths. The private schools save the government billions of dollars every year. The reason the districts are struggling is because the state for reasons that will remain unmentioned refuse to do their jobs, among which are properly funding the legally mandated special needs and bussing
The last sentence is the heart of the matter. About the second sentence, consider that economic arguments do not apply to some things. Public schools preserve the republic and transmit the American way through the generations. As Burke said, a nation is not just the people today, but a contract between those that are alive, those that have lived, and those who are yet to be born.
My apologies for the misunderstanding, I was replying to @HowellNJneighbor. Who seems to be bothered by the same problems that you are, but doesn’t understand that the cause is the state not doing their job, and would prefer to blame the Orthodox who fund their own schools with tremendous sacrifice and save the state a minimum of 1.5 billion dollars a year.
I agree. Towns can not hold this amount of schools. Busing will bankrupt. Putting schools next to homes is not wanted by anyone. Perhaps the community should build bigger schools to hold more students instead of more schools. Public schools build for the amount of students first. Not 50 public schools
I assume you’re talking about bussing for students who live more than 2/2.5 miles from their schools, correct? I’m sure you’re aware that courtesy bussing is not required by the state, so the state has no obligation to fund it.
That law needs to be changed. Can you imagine not having busing for kids within 2 miles of their schools? NIGHTMARE!
Right now my kids are 4+ miles from school and don’t get busing. I should tell my schools to move less then 2 miles from my house so my kids will get busing.
Why is it a bigger priority for kids that live less then 2 miles from school to get busing then those who live over 4?
It does make sense for the district to offer courtesy bussing. But those costs are not reimbursed by the state, and therefore are borne by taxpayers.
Mr. Lang should go on to the bigger playing field of Washington DC and aim for the top anyone who can get along with both sides of two warring gangs belongs right there in the top spot, he can make America great again without breaking the law to avoid losing an election, who would you all vote for in ’24, Joe Biden or Arthur Lang?