Robert Singer Vocational Institute Dinner

this is just uh an event for the children all the money here goes to the young people um that we want to save as you know many of the children in school are at risk and without this school there'll be a lawsuit forever so it's a very positive thing for our community and again we thank everyone for supporting the school that makes a difference in the lives of anyone i would just like to echo the sentiment of a very big supporter of cabrera big supporter the senator understands the importance which he always has ever since i've known him it's always been about children it's always been about what he can do for children and for kids and it's important for us as a killer to recognize and understand that youth at risk have a place and they need help from the other side of the aisle i've always felt that you know doing something for the kids in this town is the most important thing that we can do whether it's providing a home for them to live in making sure the schools are adequate for them and especially for those who are looking for the right path in life to make sure that there's people out there who have the time and the ability to really show them the right way and to keep them from the pitfalls that are just all over the place out there so i'm very happy to be invited tonight to be friends with and they do such a wonderful job with our children i would just like to end off by saying that i'm pleased to announce that ray is going to be switching parties this year and yeah i'm becoming an independent and we'll be running together on the republicans without this type of schooling many of these young people would leave the community would leave their families and i don't know what kind of trouble they get into it would be the right thing so so it really is is helping us to help our children and in this in this society today with computers and cell phones and all the other modern things that young people have access to no one is immune no community is immune no children and you know we we talk sometimes about how wonderful our children are likely and i can tell you that all of us visit our schools both public and private and in many cases in our private schools in lakewood our children are very naive uh vinash and i laugh as we as we talk we we've talked in front of a number of the schools and how sweet and how wonderful our children are because they are naive but unfortunately the naiveness sometimes other things creep in to create other problems and and again those become our children at risk so i want to really thank all the members of the school you know one of the teachers came over tonight and said would you mind coming to speak to the young people in the school and i said it'd be my pleasure to speak i look forward to doing that and i know each one of the community would like to do i know minas would you like to do it deputy mayor miller would like to do it uh former mayor coles would like to go committee calls and and committee and academy would love to come and speak to the speak to the young people in the school and talk a little about what they do and how much they mean to us so on behalf of the and i just want to say one last thing because i saw i saw the superintendent of schools here lydia is not hiding i shared with her something very interesting that's going to happen and it's something that that affects all of us in here today i'm bringing a gentleman to town the next few weeks called steve adubato steve adubato senior happens to run the most successful charter school in the state of new jersey he runs it out of newark he has a 95 placement rate in college and his student base is 100 minority and they go to school 11 months of the year and he's coming down because i was just in puerto rico with him we discussed it about opening up a charter school in lakewood uh to attract uh the really to attract some of the public school students and you know i i it was very funny because i had this meeting with him about about a month and a half ago in puerto rico and he had made the appointment to come down here and in the governor's state of state speech the other day he talked about the robert trent academy and his success rate and by the way the cost of educating those students is right where we're paying right now about ten thousand dollars per student compared to newark it's paying 24 000 25 so it can be done and these students go 11 months a year they wear uniforms and they and they enjoy going to school and they're reproductive but the governor governor christie mentioned in his speech about the fact there's a waiting list to get into school it's robert trent academy and that you have to go to lottery and he met a mother whose child had gotten into the school and won the lottery he was going to school and he asked that mother how she felt and ron dancer was sitting right next to me when you heard the speech and the mother said my child had two choices going to college or going to jail and unfortunately going to college so think of the connotation you talk about when children are striving to do the best they can and have choices so i'm very happy he's coming here and and as a matter of fact i'm happy to meet with aaron to talk about that about what he wants to come and what he wants to do in the area and i spoke to the superintendent who knows him very well and he's going to be we're going to arrange to have him come speak to her also so there are good things happening in lake for all our children but tonight it really is to thank detached committee the mayor the deputy mayor men for all they do for our children for all the support of the school we thank you so actually much know that uh ray was on the uh fighting committee so he got the invitation to see it was actually ray and both isaac and the inviting committees i think could be appropriate fray was had a few words on the gap of the school i've become a lot like bob i've never let an audience go to waste i thank everybody so much i mean helping children in need is the highest calling that i can personally think of it wasn't too many years ago that i was in danger of falling through some of the cracks that we find some of our own children falling through today and to know that these gentlemen and ladies are out there working every day to make sure that these children have a way to get through a path to follow and a family to come home to is just very humbling i thank all of you for the hard work that you do and for recognizing the committee tonight so thank you very much