Eyes on EB Has Been a Little Too Serious Lately… So Let’s Have Some Fun! East Brunswick residents awoke this morning to a sky so suspiciously streaked with smoke that Facebook’s finest minds immediately took action. Was it jet fuel? A government experiment? Or perhaps the long-awaited return of the Chemtrail Cabal™, determined to keep...Read More

East Brunswick has been here before. In the early 1980s, the district faced budget constraints and declining enrollment, leading to the proposed closure of Irwin Elementary School and either Lawrence Brook Elementary School or Memorial Elementary School. The reasoning at the time was that there just weren’t enough students to justify keeping them open. Parents fought back, concerned about class sizes, redistricting, and...Read More

Recently, we put together a spreadsheet compiling information from the publicly available BOE meeting minutes to get a clearer picture of how much was spent on the Temporary Classroom Units (TCUs). These modular classrooms were meant to be a temporary solution in anticipation of the construction of a new high school, but the financial details surrounding them is...Read More

The Pathetic Literacy Program Survey A Survey Designed for Damage Control, Not Truth If you’ve had the misfortune of reading the district’s latest literacy program survey, you might have mistaken it for an honest attempt at gathering feedback. But let’s be clear: this was never about evaluating whether the curriculum is working. It’s a smokescreen...Read More

The Taxpayer’s Palace: East Brunswick, welcome to the latest chapter in our ongoing saga of fiscal brilliance. Once upon a time, the Board of Education told us we needed emergency classroom units—the TCU trailers—so urgently that millions of taxpayer dollars had to be thrown at them. Then we realized we didn’t actually need them. Then...Read More

Understanding the Shadows of Support We’ve observed an interesting phenomenon through our Facebook metrics: a significant portion of our audience, who do not follow or openly like our page, consistently engages with our content, such as reading our blog posts or visiting our page. This intriguing pattern raises an important question: Why the hesitation in...Read More

Building Community One Laugh at a Time At Eyes On EB, our main goal is crystal clear: to forge a strong, united community. But let’s be honest, this isn’t just about holding hands and singing “Kumbaya.” While we strive to bring everyone together, we’re not afraid to stir the pot when needed. Yes, we aim...Read More

East Brunswick—It’s a fact universally acknowledged that when a community cares deeply about its education system, a simple Board of Education just won’t cut it. Enter the need for a Citizens’ Oversight Committee (COC)—and not just any COC, we’re talking a Big COC. Who’s Got the Biggest COC? The quest for COC isn’t just about...Read More

When Men Just Can’t Take a Joke Women Love Eyes on EB—Their Husbands, Not So Much There’s a new epidemic sweeping East Brunswick, and no, it’s not another tax increase—it’s Eyes on EB Derangement Syndrome (EOEB-DS). It primarily affects middle-aged men who take life way too seriously, spend too much time being outraged, and have...Read More

Let’s be honest—if our little local blog gets you all worked up, you might have bigger issues than the latest East Brunswick drama. After all, enjoying a good read requires an appreciation for wit, timing, and a little bit of passion—three things that, let’s face it, also apply to other important areas of life. The...Read More