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Fair Haven parent tells board auditorium-door policy is making students late, urges traffic assistance
Summary
At the Nov. 18 special meeting, resident Walter Rapp said closure of the auditorium door is contributing to student tardiness and cited a 25‑minute delay at a nearby intersection; he also criticized a 10:30–11:30 pickup window for items.
Walter Rapp of 230 Oxford in Fair Haven spoke during public comment at the Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School Board of Education special meeting on Nov. 18 to raise logistical concerns about a recent auditorium-door policy.
"It took him 25 minutes to get through the light on Bingham yesterday morning," Rapp said as he described students arriving late and the detention room filling up. He told the board that some students who are late are being placed in detention but that the detention space has been overwhelmed. Rapp suggested that school administrators and town officials provide traffic direction to improve vehicle flow and that the board reconsider the 10:30–11:30 pickup window for dropped-off items, which he said unfairly penalizes students who cannot quickly run home to retrieve materials.
Rapp noted that items parents bring during the 10:30–11:30 window are sometimes class-related — for example, printed assignments — and argued that strict pickup rules risk students receiving zeros for work they couldn’t timely deliver. The minutes list the comment under public comment and give Rapp’s address as 230 Oxford, Fair Haven.
