75% of 100'000 is not 25'000. Is this the math they teach in the District or Patch typo?

Hey JD at least they have more than a GED

While I understand that kids need to get back to " normal"((( ITS A SPORTS DOME)) Is a sports dome really a priority of getting things repaired? I'am glad that FEMA may help them get a sports bubble up, while people lost cars & second homes that FEMA will NOT be helping with... seems kind of unbalanced to me...

Trnparent - JD is right. Some can't even read or write properly but still got the job due to connection to the top. Enough said.

My son was considering teaching until some of the TR schools teachers got a hold of him. Constant negative comments about the district and if they had to do it all over again they would not have become teachers. Maybe they have some difficult days but a schedule you cant beat summers off good benefits pension if you don't like the job just leave. Travel 3 hours up and down the parkway like most of us. Sorry for the side track Overall the bubble deal has worked out. I hope the kids can use it soon.

Just an FYI....teachers do not get summers off. They get paid for a ten month contract. Most teachers work additional jobs during the summer, if not during the school year, to pay the bills. And to say that teachers should travel 3 hours up and down the parkway like everyone else to get to work is just ignorant. The career you choose has nothing to do with the location you get a job in. Some of the people driving next to you on the parkway may very well be teachers. There are teachers who live in south jersey who work in central or north jersey....just like there are people in other professions who might have a job in their own town with a five minute commute. And BTW, your rant against teachers had nothing to do with this article....so perhaps you should have paid more attention to Reading Comprehension when you were in school.

Well, now I can sleep at night again, the bubble is almost back!!!!!

Just added a aerial photo of the bubble. It is impressive & I use it as an informal landmark. Glad to see it coming back to life.

Inflating a BUBBLE !!!........How Ironic !

The "Bubble" the tax payers voted down, that Mike Ritacco went ahead and had built anyway. Now costing taxpayers $25,000 more, for something the majority didn't want in the first place. In my opinion, not a priority considering so many TRRS students are still homeless due to Sandy.

I wonder ones it up if it will be used for temp housing while so many are still homeless & will be at least another 8 to 10 months before they can return to their homes?

Go have a could car washes and earn money for that big waste of ugly construction you want back up. Why not ask Fema to put the Roller Coaster back up too? Why not send the bubble request to the Paulsboro residents and see if they think the bubble is more important than them too. Those are some suggestions for those of you who have priorities up your butt.

Oh I have to restate what I said on the first line. I was so flabbergasted with the stupidity here on this forum regarding the bubble. What I meant to state was "Go have a few car washes to earn extra money...

Of all of the things in Toms River that need repair, this is what money is wasted on?
They should have left it down!

I drove past the other day and was sickened to see this eyesore back up. It's existance is just a thorn in our sides knowing we all voted NO and Mikey went and built it anyway.

More wasted money on this monstrosity.

i know its for the kids ! haha well if it is then put in bathrooms etc..and its another bunch of bull from toms river schools it was voted down but as we can see it doesnt matter....thanks mike for our pensions, jobs, cousins jobs .kids jobs etc and etc

Wow...a lot of hatred here...I hope that all of you posting these rants (truthful enough as some are) attend the BoE meetings and speak...oh wait, unless you are all Dennis Mrs Benson, or JD, you sit at home whining instead of doing something.

Lets set the record straight. The bubble and the pine belt arena are the only TRRS projects that sustain themselves. Meaning they make money. The bubble had to be repaired to make money from scheduled events. I see the place packed almost everyday during the winter. And yes, you have to know someone to get a teaching job in TR!

@ JD…you are comparing a building to a financial investment? This is a structure. It is one of only a few structures in Ocean County that was built for a purpose that generates revenue. Compare it to other structures; such as a school building or a library…they are good investments that produce non-financial results. This is a structure that produces similar non-financial results, but has the added benefit of also producing revenue.

Your analogy doesn't make any sense.

Is it true that our sheriff went down with the bubble after his setup of the county emergency management communications headquarters for Hurricane Sandy inside the bubble? It sure would explain why he has been missing in action for the past several weeks. Since the position of county sheriff seems to have little to do with running the sheriff’s department, perhaps we should retire the county sheriff's position in honor of our current sheriff when, or if, he retires or leaves the job. It would be in the spirit of a sports team retiring the number of a valuable team player at the end of the player's career. It could even be chalked up to the bubble creating another $200K income savings annually. Now that's building team spirit.