East Brunswick public schools (Edison, Plainfield: how much, luxury, middle school)
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I am trying to compare Monroe to East Brunswick and the following comment in greatschools.net called my attention. If anyone can comment with personal experiences I will really appreciate it!
Review # 1 for Middle School EB - Posted April 16, 2008
I think this school is horrible! The kids are nasty. They are mean to me every single day and pick on me all the time. I am overwhelmed with so much homework every single day and I feel like my life is unimportant since I never have any fun. Other schools don't give half as much homework as this school and I have so much stress in my life already. Plus, even the time of school beginning is ridiculous. 7:26AM! At 6:45 I am out of the house. I often get very cold waiting at the corner and I even cry myself to sleep a lot since I feel miserable because I have to go Churchill everyday. School is school, but it shouldn't be this horrible. Unfortinately, I have no other option than to torture myself everyday.
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Review # 2 for High School EB Posted February 1, 2009
This school gives a mediocre education at best. I had many classes taught by unenthusiastic, boring and unapproachable individuals. Students social life is dictated almost solely by how much money they or their parents are able to spend on their appearance, as the prima donnas that populate this school seem to think they're part of the cast of MTV's 'Real World.' The only reason this school looks good is because it is sandwiched between several terrible schools. It's not the worst school, but be prepared to spend upwards of $40 on t-shirts alone in an effort to gain social acceptance, or you could save your money and sit alone at lunch.
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I am trying to compare Monroe to East Brunswick and the following comment in greatschools.net called my attention. If anyone can comment with personal experiences I will really appreciate it!
Review # 1 for Middle School EB - Posted April 16, 2008
I think this school is horrible! The kids are nasty. They are mean to me every single day and pick on me all the time. I am overwhelmed with so much homework every single day and I feel like my life is unimportant since I never have any fun. Other schools don't give half as much homework as this school and I have so much stress in my life already. Plus, even the time of school beginning is ridiculous. 7:26AM! At 6:45 I am out of the house. I often get very cold waiting at the corner and I even cry myself to sleep a lot since I feel miserable because I have to go Churchill everyday. School is school, but it shouldn't be this horrible. Unfortinately, I have no other option than to torture myself everyday.
Submitted by a student
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Review # 2 for High School EB Posted February 1, 2009
This school gives a mediocre education at best. I had many classes taught by unenthusiastic, boring and unapproachable individuals. Students social life is dictated almost solely by how much money they or their parents are able to spend on their appearance, as the prima donnas that populate this school seem to think they're part of the cast of MTV's 'Real World.' The only reason this school looks good is because it is sandwiched between several terrible schools. It's not the worst school, but be prepared to spend upwards of $40 on t-shirts alone in an effort to gain social acceptance, or you could save your money and sit alone at lunch.
Submitted by a student
These reviews could come from any public school. They sound like complaints that any child in a public school could have. The first child's comment is just sad. The second comment sounds sad too, and is talking about the materialism, but again, nothing I think that is unique to EB.
I am trying to compare Monroe to East Brunswick and the following comment in greatschools.net called my attention. If anyone can comment with personal experiences I will really appreciate it!
Review # 1 for Middle School EB - Posted April 16, 2008
I think this school is horrible! The kids are nasty. They are mean to me every single day and pick on me all the time. I am overwhelmed with so much homework every single day and I feel like my life is unimportant since I never have any fun. Other schools don't give half as much homework as this school and I have so much stress in my life already. Plus, even the time of school beginning is ridiculous. 7:26AM! At 6:45 I am out of the house. I often get very cold waiting at the corner and I even cry myself to sleep a lot since I feel miserable because I have to go Churchill everyday. School is school, but it shouldn't be this horrible. Unfortinately, I have no other option than to torture myself everyday.
Submitted by a student
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Review # 2 for High School EB Posted February 1, 2009
This school gives a mediocre education at best. I had many classes taught by unenthusiastic, boring and unapproachable individuals. Students social life is dictated almost solely by how much money they or their parents are able to spend on their appearance, as the prima donnas that populate this school seem to think they're part of the cast of MTV's 'Real World.' The only reason this school looks good is because it is sandwiched between several terrible schools. It's not the worst school, but be prepared to spend upwards of $40 on t-shirts alone in an effort to gain social acceptance, or you could save your money and sit alone at lunch.
Submitted by a student
Sounds exactly what my school life was like going through the Manalapan schools. To this day I still don't know how I survived it, one of the darkest periods of my life.
Talk about materialism, this past summer I totaled my car when some 17 y/o from EB had gotten her driver's license two weeks earlier and ran the stop sign with her brand new luxury Nissan and smashed right into me.
BTW what "terrible" schools is EBHS "sandwiched between"? I can't think of one.
Statistically EB test scores are higher than the surrounding towns, but it does not seem like the surrounding towns are terrible either.
No I didn't think so. I live in North Brunswick now and I know the high school here has a huge blue ribbon out on the front of the building as well, so it's pretty obvious the schools here are not too far behind EB even if they are at all. Edison I know has continuously been at the top of the list as well. But the whole blue ribbon thing is a load of crap anyway, half of your kid's education is what you put into it. I used to sub in Piscataway, which has significant spill over from Plainfield, including a gang problem in the high school there, and I will tell you while there aren't any blue ribbon schools there that I could see any notice of, the quality of the education was fantastic. I've never seen anything like it in any other district.
I used to sub in Piscataway, which has significant spill over from Plainfield, including a gang problem in the high school there, and I will tell you while there aren't any blue ribbon schools there that I could see any notice of, the quality of the education was fantastic. I've never seen anything like it in any other district.
Stay below the bridge that goes over New Market Lake. Once you get past there it gets really shady. There's a school up there called Arbor I subbed there maybe three times and did not feel comfortable, that area drifts right into Plainfield. The other 4-5 school, King, is in that huge development off River Rd and is probably the better of the two in that age group, so I'd look for something zoned to that.
Piscataway is a very diverse town, a one-of-a-kind melting pot for a suburban area like itself, not really unsafe but it's a lower middle class area. Be selective and do some careful research.
East Brunswick schools extremely good. The education and choices for extra curricular classes are very advanced. The only people that complain about East Brunswick schools are ones that couldn't keep up or didn't want to do all the work.
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