EBHS does it again in national competition

I was delighted to discover this morning that our East Brunswick High School (EBHS) kids have done it again and come in first in the We the People national competition sponsored by the Center for Civic Education.

For 15 of the last 16 years, our high school team has consistently placed among the top 10 teams in this contest about the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution. Our strong participation in the contest, year after year, is a tribute to the tenacity and to the quality of the educational program in East Brunswick.

The kids most especially, but also their parents, the administration, the high school history teachers, the rest of the staff teaching all subjects and all grades, and in particular, Alan Brodman, the teacher in charge of the program, all share in this great achievement. Once again they have made all of the citizens of the township, and for that matter, the state, very proud.

I was in the Washington D.C. ballroom six years ago, the first time it was announced that East Brunswick won the whole thing. I will always remember the elation of the moment. As a parent and at the time as a member of the Board of Education, I recall the intense pride I felt for the extraordinary achievement of our kids. It was a second in time in which, for that instant, all was wonderful, and the world we lived in had gone amazingly right.

Instances like that come all too rarely, and our group of kids, educators and parents enjoyed a singular communion. I’m sure that this year’s experience was no less extraordinary.

I wish everyone in our town could see the intelligence, the talent, the logical reasoning, the scholarship and the poise that our kids demonstrate through this program and through the many other equally exciting and educationally valid activities in which they participate each and every year.

Congratulations to all, and I want to express my profound appreciation to the board and to the administration for continuing to support this program.

Neal M. Rosen

East Brunswick