LOWERING the FB school's scores

[Fiber is good for you]

Thanks BOE.... helping to establish good reason why Vouchers may become the only answer to resolving our troubled schools (and I didn't believe in vouchers, till know)

This bodies INTERPRETATION is weak! FIGFY

Pre-K now included on boro registration forms
BY CLARE MARIE CELANO
Staff Writer

FREEHOLD — School registration forms in the Freehold Borough School District have been updated to reflect the new pre-K school location at the First Presbyterian Church, West Main Street, and the hours of operation.

Jim Keelan, president of the Board of Education, gave a presentation on the updated registration forms at a recent Freehold Borough Human Relations Committee meeting on Dec. 5.

Keelan explained that according to New Jersey education residency laws, the pre-K program is open to all children who reside in the borough.

He discussed what school officials are permitted by law to ask for as identification, and what they are not allowed to ask for. Keelan said they are limited in this respect.

“We can’t insist on certain information. We can’t force them to provide certain information if they do not have it,” Keelan said.

Certain groups of children documented as affidavit students present their own set of issues. Adults who are registering students through affidavits are those who claim they are taking care of a nonresident child for hardship reasons, according to Keelan.

For instance, a child may be living in the borough with a grandparent or other relative who is solely responsible for the care of the child, while his or her parents may actually live in another municipality. Under these circumstances, school officials are allowed by law to insist on the presentation of a deed, certificate of occupancy, or rental registration, for the student to be enrolled in the school district.

According to Keelan, a database has been created in order to track the type of documentation that is provided. Letters will be sent to each family each spring to remind them that they must provide a new affidavit and documentation.

“Any student file that is still open due to a lack of required number of proofs was sent a letter in October,” Keelan explained. “A follow-up phone call was made to those who did not respond. A second letter was mailed today, referencing tuition payments required due to the lack of response to the previous letter, and the family will have 21 days to appeal to the commissioner of education.”

Keelan said that 21 students were sent letters originally; nine students were sent the second letter. He added that if the forms are not produced, school officials will have the children removed from the district or begin charging them tuition for their education.

Keelan said the district may resort to asking borough officials for tax records to provide proof of residency. He said if they did this, they would have to ask for all tax records, and not single out any one family.

According to Keelan, the physical condition of an applicant’s housing or an applicant’s compliance with local housing ordinance or terms of lease shall not affect eligibility to attend school.

Immigration or visa status does not affect a child’s eligibility to attend school either. Any student over 5 years old and under 21 is entitled by law to receive a free public education.

Keelan added that any child who is residing in the district or otherwise eligible will be enrolled in the school district without regard to or inquiry concerning immigration status.

Keelan presented committee members with a copy of Elizabeth O’Connell’s superintendent’s report dated Dec. 4. The report included documentation that were acceptable for proof of eligibility.

The list included documents such as property tax bills, deeds, contracts of sale, leases, mortgages, signed letters from landlords and other evidence of property ownership, voter registrations, permits, financial account information, utility bills, delivery receipts, court orders, state agency agreements, receipts, bills, canceled checks, insurance claims or payments, medical reports, counselor or social worker assessments, employment documents and unemployment claims.

In addition, affidavits, certifications and sworn attestations pertaining to statuary criteria for school attendance from the parent or legal guardian or person keeping an “affidavit student” with whom a family is living. Any document pertaining to military status may also be used.

The form also states in bold print that the board “shall not deny enrollment based on failure to provide a particular form of documentation, or a particular subset of document, without regard to other evidence presented.”

[fiber is good for you]

www.njsbf.org/njsbf/publications/residency_requirements.cfm#16

From the NJ Bar foundation......
Anyone like to offer an explanation to Acceptable forms of documentation include, but are not limited to?

Proof of Eligibility

To determine a student's eligibility for enrollment in the district, a district board of education is authorized to request documentation of domicile, residency, or Affidavit Student status. Acceptable forms of documentation include, but are not limited to, the following: property tax bills, mortgages, signed letters from landlords, voter registrations, licenses, permits, utility bills, court orders, receipts, bills, medical reports, employment documents, affidavits, and documents pertaining to military status or assignment.67 A district must consider any documents or information presented by an applicant (parent, legal guardian, or caregiver) seeking to enroll a student.68 A district may not deny a student enrollment due to a person's inability or failure to produce a particular document or subset of documents, but instead must consider the totality of the information submitted by the applicant.69

[MB]

Read the last sentence in your own post Fiber!

"A district may not deny a student enrollment due to a person's inability or failure to produce a particular document or subset of documents, but instead must consider the totality of the information submitted by the applicant.69

[Fiber is good for you]

OK...."Must consider the totality" to me does not say must "ACCEPT"

Think of out BOE as a limited precious resource like WATER.

We have a serious drought, a finite supply with only so much available to our True Residents, with whom we welcome our obligation and gladly share with those who can HONESTLY validate their residency.

The BOE WILL consider the TOTALITY, however... We have lawful obligation to define what are "Acceptable forms of documentation include, but are not limited to...."

NOT LIMITED TO vs. Consider the Totality, the meaning of this verbiage, TO ME appears contradictory?

Question, What do you dilute water with? Answer, contradictory legalies...(?)

[Fiber is good for you]

Let me re word "NOT LIMITED TO vs. Consider the Totality, the meaning of this verbiage, TO ME appears to create lots of GRAY"?

[MB]

Fiber

You still are not reading your own post

A district may not deny a student enrollment due to a person's inability or failure to produce a particular document or subset of documents

By law ANY BOE in the state of NJ cannot specify what documents a person can provide. These are NJ STATE Laws.

[AndrewD]

Fiber,

Being a board of education member, I was at the December 5th meeting when Jim Keelan first presented the information that he later presented to the Human Relations Committee (which is where Claire Marie Celano picked up the story). When you read through a number of the other posts on this site, you see that the issue of student enrollment has been addressed time and time again.

You say that those of us on the board of ed are "helping to establish good reason why Vouchers may become the only answer to resolving our troubled schools "...you then go on and say, "This bodies INTERPRETATION is weak!". So, as a board member, I ask you, an obviously concerned citizen of Freehold Boro...what would you have us do?

In your second post, you quote the information you got from the Bar Association (which appears to be a direct quote of the law). You then go on to ask what they mean by "Acceptable forms of documentation include, but are not limited to". All I can say is, from the way I read the law, your question is irrelevant, because later in the verbage, you see it says "A district may not deny a student enrollment due to a person's inability or failure to produce a particular document or subset of documents, but instead must consider the totality of the information submitted by the applicant".

Basically, the law sets up all of these things we can accept as proof, but then says we can't deny a student admission if they don't come up with those specific documents. In my personal opinion, it's the normal runaround nonsense that gets written into every law...make the law vague so that it really doesn't enforce anything...again, just my opinion.

I will say again, if you have any ideas for the board, we are more than willing to listen. In fact, I would love to see anyone come down to our board meetings (the next one is Monday the 18th at 7pm at the Park Avenue School library) and give us any kind of feedback. Unfortunately, we see the same dedicated teachers there time and time again, and the same couple of parents, who at each meeting, I hope they get up and speak to us and tell us what's on their minds (and luckily for us, they often do), but no one new seems to be coming to the meetings.

I hear grumblings all over town from people I know and talk to, and they are (for the most part) well intentioned, but no one shows up at our meetings. Please, come down to a meeting and present your ideas to the board. You may discover that we have gone down these avenues before, you may find out that we are currently looking into new avenues, you may even be able to present a new avenue for us to explore...but we'll never know if you don't show up.

Again, I can not stress this strongly enough, please come down to a meeting (Monday the 18th at 7pm at Park Avenue School Library). I look forward to hearing from you.

[fiber is good for you]

OK MB.....

NOT LIMITED TO vs. Consider the Totality vs. "by law" A district may not deny a student enrollment due to a person's inability or failure to produce a particular document or subset of documents?

Your inference is that an"inability or failure to produce a particular document or subset of documents" establishes that there are no legal documentation requirement by any School district, by law...

They the LAW should read this simple fact, and not discuse..."a district board of education is authorized to request documentation of domicile, residency"

So you can request, but the student has no obligation to submit....Hu?

...I am to understand that there is relay is NO requirement to submit, produce, substantiate or validate any "document or subset of document".

....I am also, to understand that schools have no legal obligation to request, and students have no legal obligation to supply any documentation, any written PROOF of residency and can exhibit the inability, the out right failure to produce documentation, and this student, no the less must be be accepted....

Simply, word of mouth is adequate? Well OK then

Try this in ANY SCHOOL DISTRICT, PLEASE....

[fiber is good for you]

"Basically, the law sets up all of these things we can accept as proof, but then says we can't deny a student admission if they don't come up with those specific documents. In my personal opinion, it's the normal runaround nonsense that gets written into every law...make the law vague so that it really doesn't enforce anything...again, just my opinion."

Sucks doesn't it!

So whats the plan to fix it.

Asking the home owners for more money for something clearly broken is going to get you another NO vote, that the BOE will be forced to go back tot he state and over turn AGAIN,.....

How about making a stand for the HOMEOWNERS!

Again you make the case for school vouchers.

In a Voucher district you NEED to provide residency proof positive to gain access to a voucher, and if thats the solution, so be it!

The reality is the current situation does not serve the community that ELECTED the school board!

If you not standing up for the folks that VOTED, what are you doing? Board member LIVE here in the boro, and I would hope, they want to make a positive impact, yet the results over the last three years is evident!

Make a stand, NO access to services without VALIDATION!!! If there is ambiguity preventing you from being effective fight it!

To say you can;t fight city hall, and you are city hall is a bunch of BS, and you need to make room for some one who will fight for what is right, for some one that is willing to challenge ambiguity, thats why you where elected, not to be complacent.

[MB]

Fiber

I see you only choose to interpret the law as you see fit?

I am curious on why you think the BOE members, who are taxpaying members of the community too, are not trying their best within the constraints, forced upon them by the Feds and the State, for the schools? Home rule in NJ is a joke; the BOEs in this State have very little flexibility on many issues. Did you know that while BOE members are elected, they are really volunteers, and receive no compensation for their Services? What motivation do you think they have for being lax with, according to you, on residency requirements? Don’t you think they would want less kids in the schools too so they could better focus the Boro scarce resources, reduce class size and eliminate overcrowding with hopes of improving test scores too?

You seem to be a knowledgeable and resourceful person, besides anonymous posting on this website what constructive actions have you done to improve the address these issues.

Have you gone to a BOE meeting to express you concerns and hear what the BOE is doing for the community? Have you called the Schools offices and ask to meet with the superintendent to discuss you concerns and ideas to help. Have you contacted the Monmouth county Superintendent and discussed how you think Freehold Boro BOE residency requirements are not as strict as other town, in your opinion? Have you called, written, e-mailed or visited with you State Senator or Assembly members and discussed these issues and how you can help?

[AndrewD]

Fiber...I submit to you the following, whether you believe it or not is your own perogative...

The school board, for quite some time now (well before I got on the board in April) has been appealing to the Senators and Assemblymen and women of this state (all of whom this community and the rest of the state voted into office) in an effort to get them to change or at least better define these laws. For all of this time, we have gotten the same lip service from the Legislators of this state, and no action. They are the ones who can change the laws, not the school board.

As for my own opinion, I do not speak for the board, I would love to fight every one of these laws in the courts, but we don't have enough money to run the schools as it is, where are we going to find the funds to pay the exorbitant legal fees that will come from such battles?

I have more I would like to say on this topic...but unfortunately, work is calling and I have to get back to it...I will post more when I can.

Andrew DeFonzo

[colonoscopy]

Understanding dat skools kneed surtan racial make-ups, why kant we export sum of our stewdents to a nayboring town?

[admin]

colonoscopy said:

Understanding dat skools kneed surtan racial make-ups, why kant we export sum of our stewdents to a nayboring town?

Colon, your post is goofy, but makes a good point. The idea of merging our schools systems or exporting students, may be the best idea for our town. Nothing against the BOE, but our system is broke and it is unsustainable for a working class town like ours.

[sonofsilencedogood]

Colon and Brian...

Merging our schools would be a great idea...only one small problem...unless the state mandates it, there isn't a town around us that would voluntarily merge with us...and I think we all know why.

[fiber is good for you]

Heres another rub on District merger...example, if the Township spends $9K or $10K on each student, what do you think happens to your property tax?

Our cost per student goes up too,.... yes?

[Fiber is good for you]

"I would love to fight every one of these laws in the courts, "...so you have a passioned belief, and you are on the board, ....so why not have your passioned sentiment put on the table!!!

"but we don't have enough money to run the schools as it is.." Fact is the board will issue a new budget, and will be asking for more money from the HOME OWNERS. Are you planing to protect our best interests or asking homeowners to supply more money for support of a highly unpopular endeavor (remember the 580 plus voters from the last referendum vote)

[fiber is good for you]

MB said:

Fiber

I see you only choose to interpret the law as you see fit?

I am curious on why you think the BOE members, who are taxpaying members of the community too, are not trying their best within the constraints, forced upon them by the Feds and the State, for the schools? Home rule in NJ is a joke; the BOEs in this State have very little flexibility on many issues. Did you know that while BOE members are elected, they are really volunteers, and receive no compensation for their Services? What motivation do you think they have for being lax with, according to you, on residency requirements? Don’t you think they would want less kids in the schools too so they could better focus the Boro scarce resources, reduce class size and eliminate overcrowding with hopes of improving test scores too?

You seem to be a knowledgeable and resourceful person, besides anonymous posting on this website what constructive actions have you done to improve the address these issues.

Have you gone to a BOE meeting to express you concerns and hear what the BOE is doing for the community? Have you called the Schools offices and ask to meet with the superintendent to discuss you concerns and ideas to help. Have you contacted the Monmouth county Superintendent and discussed how you think Freehold Boro BOE residency requirements are not as strict as other town, in your opinion? Have you called, written, e-mailed or visited with you State Senator or Assembly members and discussed these issues and how you can help?

Q & A Time... How do you "interpret the law" that states, ..."Acceptable forms of documentation include, but are not limited to...", yet....concludes by stating "A district may not deny a student enrollment due to a person's inability or failure to produce a particular document or subset of documents"
this states...you can ask for specif documents, but the applicant can refuse to comply This is gibberish!

"BOE members, who are taxpaying members of the community", and are all nice, well meaning folks who are doing a great job spending a lot of attention on the MECHANICS of education and processes; they chose to not provide a definitive challenge to the dichotomy of enrollment eligibility.

"anonymous posting" me or you?

What constructive actions have YOU done, and What do you suggest how me, or anyone can help?

And have YOU called aoth BOE, and ask what they require and what happeds if an enrollee can not comply?

And yes I did call the Monmouth County State Dept of Education, and was told that documantation is up to te disctricts discretion.

Do you think ambiguity with proof of residentcy documantaion is OK?

Are you planning to provide unlimited funds for an open school district for anyone who can issue an unverifiable, simple "CLAIM" of residency, and acknowledge that the BOE has no obligation to maintain residency integrity to the community it serves?

Would you have be believe that the districts school problems, 3rd year running, have nothing to do with the above, and that I should get over it, accept it and move on?

Thanks
FIGFY

[admin]

sonofsilencedogood said:

Colon and Brian...

Merging our schools would be a great idea...only one small problem...unless the state mandates it, there isn't a town around us that would voluntarily merge with us...and I think we all know why.

Son, I agree with you but I am going to add why we should merge.

It should be mandated by the state because the surrounding towns have to take responsibility for what we are dealing with. At the rate we are going, the boro schools are going to be just the children of illegal immigrants in a few short years. Why is that? Because the surrounding towns attract these illegal workers who do not pay their share and have many children. That burden should not fall on those of us who did not invite illegals here. If the surrounding tows take responsibility for what they employ, then we may have a wake up call. AS long as the burdens of the illegals fall on our small population, coupled with a broken education establishment, then Freehold is destined for failure. NONE of this is meant against the FB BOE, just a look at the whole picture.

[sonofsilencedogood]

Brian...

Like I said, I think merging would be great. And I certainly agree with your reasoning why it would be great...but what I would like to see (in addition to surrounding towns having to pay some of the price for the cheap labor they love to reap the benefits of) is our town council doing more to get the illegal population out of our town.

I said on another thread that the town should look into the Illegal Immigration and Immigrant Reform Act of 1996, which allows the town to work with the US Attorney General in order to designate one of our town policemen as having the powers of a Federal Immigration Officer. I have not seen a reply to this idea.

While we might be able to get the surrounding towns to help with the inflated educational cost these illegals burden us with, it doesn't deal with the problem of them still leeching off of all of our other public services.

I know, you think that by putting a few kids in the Township, and Howell, and Colts Neck, and Marlboro, that we'll finally get some other towns to back us up in our fight to deal with the overall illegal issue...to be honest, I am not as confident that this will happen. If we dumped a large number of these students in one town, we could find an ally, but by sprinkling them around, I don't think the impact will be large enough to garner that much support.

Just more thoughts...let's keep the debate flowing...

[Fiber is good for you]

MERGER WILL ..... when Pigs Fly!

Next Idea!

[RK]

Fiber

You are right the laws are Gibberish, but they are the law, and you are looking at acceptable forms of ID from the wrong side. About 2.5 years ago the BOE tried to request specific forms of ID and was told by the BOE attorney this was in violation of the LAW. Also last year when the State CAPA team came in, they made the BOE delete some other info they were requesting, because it was a violation of the law. OBTW FB asks for 4 forms of ID Freehold TWP only asks for 2.

Please read below extract, it cannot be much clearer. I have also posted the link to the NJSBA web site where you can find the entire document.

WHAT PROCEDURES MUST BE FOLLOWED DURING ENROLLMENT?
Documentation: A district board of education may accept many forms of documentation to establish an entitlement to a free education, and must consider any information presented by a person seeking to enroll a student. Enrollment must not be denied based on the failure to provide a particular form of documentation. A board must consider the totality of information submitted on the student’s behalf.
N.J.A.C. 6A:28-2.5 provides a virtual laundry list of specific forms of documentation that a district must accept from persons attempting to demonstrate a student’s eligibility
for enrollment in the district:

www.njsba.org/legal_02/pupil_admissions_and_eligibility.pdf

The BOE is concerned about this issue and is trying to do everything it legally can, but the deck is stacked against the schools.

The BOE also looked at Suing the State and suing for a forced merger with another school district. The BOE attorney advised the BOE that this would take years and cost $Thousands of dollars. 2 other similar suits have been in the system for over 6 years and have gone no place. He advised waiting until after the special session before the BOE considers filing.

I suggest you Lobby Karcher, Panter and Beck for help for FBS and your property taxes.

[Marc LeVine]

I said on another thread that the town should look into the Illegal Immigration and Immigrant Reform Act of 1996, which allows the town to work with the US Attorney General in order to designate one of our town policemen as having the powers of a Federal Immigration Officer. I have not seen a reply to this idea.

SonofSilencegogood:

I think I'll just call you "Son." My fingers get tired typing that whole thing. I suppose you were directing this question to me?

Back in '03, a round table discussion hosted by PEOPLE proposed looking into this possibility and caught a lot of heat, publicly (from the Advocates), for even suggesting it. Shouldn't be a surprise.

At the time, we (PEOPLE) were advised by the Borough that NJ was not a state where this was possible. Honestly, I don't remember why that was the case back then or if it still is.

I am not sure that doing this (deputizing our police) in our town is in our best overall interest for many reasons including increased workload, community relations issues, etc. However, for our own edification purposes, I took the liberty of writing to our NJ State A.G. (yesterday) just to see how he responds. Not sure about you, but I haven't read very much in the newspapers about other NJ towns considering this option, right now. There must be a reason for this, since they have talked about doing just about everything else.

My request was unofficial and whatever his (AG) response to me may be, I am making no commitments to go any further. It's always good to be well informed.

Marc

[sonofsilencedogood]

Marc...

I certainly appreciate your efforts in writing to the AG (I myself have written to some state officials asking about this same idea, still with no response), and I hope you get a response, though I fully understand that your personal endeavors do not guarantee Town Council action.

As we all know, the issue of the illegal immigrants in town is a very big, very passionate, but very real issue. My own personal opinion, if the town went ahead with exploring this issue, you certainly will feel a lot of heat from the advocacy groups. However, the flip side to that is that I believe the majority of residents in Freehold would support any type of action that would help to control this spiraling problem. Often times politicians (and I don't mean to single you out by any means) tend to forget about the "silent majority", listening instead to the smaller special interest groups who just yell a lot louder.

Don't forget that if the town council decided to look into this, or any other option, despite the shouting that will be coming from one side, there is the silent majority who realize that what you are doing, you are doing for the best interests of our town, and we will support you overwhelmingly when need be.

With any luck, I'll be getting some responses back to the letters I sent, and so will you, and I hope that we will share whatever information we receive.

[Marc LeVine]

tend to forget about the "silent majority", listening instead to the smaller special interest groups who just yell a lot louder.

Long ago, I figured out how to best represent others. First, you do the exact opposite of everything "upsetting" you've ever heard about on television and read in the newspapers. Then, you just listen to your own gut and get to work.

Also, you assume nothing about anything. You ask, you question, you listen, you investigate and you verify the heck out of everything others say they will do. Then, you do it all over again and again until you are satisfied with what you get.

"Son," if we all try to become the kind of public servants that we would want to represent us, not too much else matters, because we are being true to ourselves.

There really is no "Silent Majority," only those people that have not been deliberately reached out to for their input. And, this is why I participate on this board. How many posters and lurkers do you think actually make it to Council Meetings on a regular basis? I'm sure, not many.

If I get any sort of answer on the police issue, I will share it with you. At least, we'll know the answer. Thanks for giving me something else to do for you.

Marc

[guest]

RK- One Word Answer...VOCHERS!!!

If enrollment is unmanageable, it is not a reasonable expectation that HOMEOWNERS to continue to fund of uncontrollable service.

Vouchers will thus resolve the management of access to resources.

Again, there is the letter of the law and spirit of the law. Why should our district be expected to do anything different than our surrounding communities BOE?

Smells like the ambiguity with the LETTER of the LAW spells out " COMPLETE UNVERIFIABLE OPEN ENROLLMENT". Then again there is the Spirit of the LAW, that the overwhelming majority of the states BOEs enforcement if founded on...Spirit, not Letter.

[Libyan Sibyl]

the answer for concerned parents is:

this:
www.geocities.com/jerseyhome/index.html

by way of this:
www.welltrainedmind.com/

[guest]

Aside from Abe Lincoln, who can name someone of significance, anyone who has amounted to anything, who as been home schooled?

Timothy McVeigh Chris Knight (Peter Bradey), Danny Bonaduce?

Home schooling is a very bad idea, unless you want a generation of underachieving moronic introverts!

[Libyan Sibyl]

Funny, and nice try. (I assume that your opinion is based on your knowledge on your own family tree as not too long ago they were homeschooled)

But if you want strangers to have control over your child and teach them what they think is appropriate, that is your choice.

So, do you want famous homeschoolers aside from those underachieving introverted dolts like Edison and Einstein?

www.hoagiesgifted.org/notable.htm
www.christianhomeschoolers.com/hs_famous_homeschoolers.html
homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/weblinks/Famous.htm

test scores of homeschoolers:
www.hslda.org/docs/nche/000010/200410250.asp

www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28648

[Libyan Sibyl]

Besides, if you want to compare failures, there is a higher percentage of failures in the public educational system then in homeschooling.

[MB]

Guest

Who says enrollment is unmanageable. What proof, besides rumor, do you have that the Boro schools have hundreds of children who do not live in the Boro and are in our school? Are the Boro schools overcrowded… Yes… but I bet 99% reside in the Boro.

What proof do you have that other town’s enforcement is more stringent than the Boro’s? See my examples from the local towns who have more lenient, or the same requirements.

48 states in the country have budget surpluses, give the BOE and Council a break, they are trying. The people you should be pressing are Karcher, Panter, Beck and Corizine, they have the power within their hands to solve these problems.

MANALAPAN-ENGLISHTOWN REGIONAL SCHOOLS
REQUIREMENTS
AGE: Children born on or before October 1, 2001 for KindergartenChildren born on or before October 1, 2000 for First Grade

PROOF OF AGE: Only a certified birth certificate from the Bureau of Vital Statistics with a raised seal will be accepted. A hospital notice of birth or a photostatic copy is not acceptable.

RESIDENCY: Two proofs of residence, e.g. driver's license, utility bill.

How is MERS stricter the FBS?

Marlboro Township K-8 Public Schools

TWO PROOFS OF RESIDENCY
Two proofs of residency in Marlboro Township are required. These include: a valid New Jersey driver’s license, notarized lease agreement, voter registration card, property tax bill, current utility bill, deed, HUD settlement statement, affidavit of title, or certificate of occupancy. You must present the original documents and a copy for our records.

Marlboro list of examples look just like the Boros and they only ask for two too. Notice they do not say these are the only proofs of ID. How is this stricter?
Freehold Township
REQUIREMENTS:
AGE: A child must be FIVE YEARS of age ON OR BEFORE October 1, 2006 to be eligible for admission in the fall documented by a birth certificate.
RESIDENCY: Two Proofs of Residency
NOTE: Parents must reside in Freehold Township in order to register their child. Parents who have entered into a contract to purchase or lease a home, but have not yet moved into the township, are not eligible to register. The following may be used as proof of residency: (A post office box number is not considered proof of residency)
*a valid NJ driver's license showing current address*a rent receipt or lease agreement*voter registration card *property tax bill*utility bill*mortgage document or deed for property

Notice the words MAY BE USED, it does not say MUST be used.

Freehold Boro from the transcript

4 forms of ID.
The list included documents such as property tax bills, deeds, contracts of sale, leases, mortgages, signed letters from landlords and other evidence of property ownership, voter registrations, permits, financial account information, utility bills, delivery receipts, court orders, state agency agreements, receipts, bills, canceled checks, insurance claims or payments, medical reports, counselor or social worker assessments, employment documents and unemployment claims.