Dr. Jack Wagner is running for election to the New Rochelle School Board, according to an article in The New Rochelle Sound Report. Wagner has many innovative ideas and is seeking to bring new thinking to what he views as a largely conservative group of board members who have not adequately embraced new technology:
“The Internet has not been incorporated in any consistent way in schools. We give our youngsters $110 American history books which get replaced. If you look up the Tripolitan Wars in one of these books you won’t find a paragraph on it. If you look on the Internet you get at least 25 responses,” he said. “There are inexpensive programs that will select lessons for you so the teachers can give instruction at the students’ ability. We can’t get rid of books completely, but I want to move in direction of substituting old technology with new technology. It will be better and vastly cheaper and allow for a better level of instruction.”
Wagner, a long-time resident of New Rochelle, brings an impressive resume to the job. A surgeon at Montefiore Hospital for 30 years, Wagner retired from medicine and embarked on a second career as a professor, teaching at City University of New York and Fordham University. He has authored a number of scientific articles in mathematics, computer science and education. Wagner and his wife of 46 years raised two sons in New Rochelle, one of whom resides in New Rochelle. Wagner has grandchildren who attend schools in the district.
Dr. Jack Wagner campaign web site
good luck jack wagner and
good luck jack wagner and you are about to engage the most vacuous, self-interested, non-skilled group of its sort put on earth by a sometimes not so benevolent deity. And, Jack, what does nice people have to do with anything? If you are a nice person you are not put off by transparency, a student’s need is not geographically bound, and you do not relish residing in a system that bows down to people who can vote, know how to cast a ballot, and think only of the so-called “kids” and not of the conditional consequences of a district that is twenty years in arrears of plans and progress. But, good luck Jack and if you prevail, dump the superingtendent who is the epitome of what someone in his posiion ought not to be. rather have joe the plumber than richard the bummer.