By TLS Staff: Ms. Laura Winters, all we can say is SHAME ON YOU. Despite multiple chances given to you to repair your broken and blatant disregard in communicating with TLS, an official media outlet in the State of New Jersey, you continue to show your true colors many – including schools and individuals – have described to TLS over the years.
This morning, TLS did a report about the issue with busing for many parents, and we emailed you prior to publishing for comment. As usual, you ignored our email. In fact, we know you received the email, because you acknowledged it when a Board member forwarded the same email to you.
Yet, when another media outlet took our story shortly after we published it and contacted you for comment, you found time to give them a statement, despite the story originating on TLS.
This is the way you run a department? Shame on you.
We have been inundated with emails from parents asking why their children are waiting outside in the nearly 90-degree heat, yet they have nobody to talk to in your defunct department. The LEAST you could do is communicate with the prime media outlet in Lakewood to let parents know what is going on, but your decency is nowhere to be found.
But this issue with you isn’t an isolated one. Nearly every school we’ve been in touch with over the past several years finds themselves in a similar predicament with you.
To quote an official that works in your department, who obviously wants to remain anonymous, “she’s obnoxious.” Though we have very rarely in our approximately eight years in publication used that term, it appears more and more true by the day.
In fact, that term was used to describe you more than once by many of the schools and staff in this town – both private and public.
Perhaps it’s time you leave the department, and take your despicable attitude with you.
SHAME ON YOU.
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I agree Shame on her. We must find a way to get rid of her. Send her packing.
I’m not Mikabel.
if everyone would come as a community to a town hall meeting and demand her to be removed, township officials have said they would have the needed backing to have her removed!
Please come to the next town hall meeting and we will demand her removal. thank you
My kids are in the Lakewood Public school system. I speak to the school staff very often. They all say she has to go. She is destroying the public schools as well as the private ones. I think we should create an online petition to get her fired. We can get parents from both public and private to sign.
Wasn’t she suspended?
Serously, she ignored tls. Is this a crime? ?
I totally agree. She is a world greatest (moderated). She should be fired asap.
I wholeheartedly disagree. Superintendent Winters is and always has been committed to do what’s best for our children within her authority. Unfortunately, Governor Christie has removed most of her authority as well as the Board’s by the appointment of State Monitor Azzara. It is HE that is at fault for the ineffective decisions that he is INVOKING on our district. She is just the fall person. Mr. Azzara is the irresponsible party here.
The siyata dishmaya I have received says Superintendent Winters is a winner that we must keep!
stop the Mike Azzara blame game the dept was defunct and in total disarray before he showed up they used the private schools as the guinea pig to bring him in and point fingers AT seemingly people are beginning to realize what and who the real problem is PERSONNEL PERSONNEL AND THE PERSON IN CHARGE OF THEM
Maybe Miss Winters ignores you, because you have never said any thing good about her.
I know for a fact that ms winters and her, now suspended, (thank you Mr azzara) croney Helen tobia read the scoop daily. They even went so far as have the IT department block the scoop from teacher internet access. They are super paranoid but KEEP GETTING A PASS ON EVERYTHING! Mr. Azzarra was brought into the district to oversee the ineptude that was going on by ms winters. He got rid of her partner and now we need him to get rid of her… because our wonderful board of education, with community supprt, gave her a 5 YEAR CONTRACT!! Only Mr. Azzarra can overturn her contract. We need to support him not blame him.
this women should be left out on the street and never have a job the way she acts and treats children.
Nice to see that there are some issues where the public school parents and private school parents are in agreement. It’s a shame that now that we are starting to unite on issues, the parents and BoE no longer have any say in what happens in Lakewood.
Laura Winters has done a terrific job. Stop the witch hunt!
Laura Winters has shown her trued colors time and time again. What’s the surprise here?
Toss her to the curb! She has done nothing but prove her incompetency and her track record has proven she is nothing more then a poor excuse for a school superintendent! How does one ignore repeated requests to answers that she should be willingly providing to the families and students that she was appointed to serve?!?! I
LOL @#8, the way you’re using the word Siyata D’Shmaya seems like you don’t know what it means, which makes me think you’re not even Jewish you’re just throwing out the word to make it look like you are.
Hey #17, I’m your son’s Rebbe.
lol . lakewood trooper. lol
These comments are pretty nasty. Is it really necessary to use such terminology as “toss her to the curb”? It appears that many people are frustrated, but how unkind and unclassy to write such comments.