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Holy Cow... How much $$ does your Superintendant
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Make??? The one in my Wife's School Distict makes $174,000. NO misprint that is One hundred Seventy four Thousand Dollars...
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College president makes $520,000 plus bonuses, and my tution is still going to go up by $1500 for next year. He got an increase from 250,000 to we he makes now last year, and my tution climb.
I laugh and tell them that TOO MUCH MONEY is being spent on education. There's lots of twisted stuff that goes on especially in those small town rural school districts. I knew of one superintendent that sat on the board of directors of the bank where the school had its bank account. The school had millions in the bank but the superintendent wouldn't let the school spend the money to repair their building that was falling apart from the insides. That superintendent was ousted and massive building efforts took place. That school is AMAZING today.
There's enough money in education. It's just tied up in the beurocracy. It's sad how most teachers don't make much at all. Teachers are supposed to be doing their job for some "higher cause" and money isn't supposed to matter but the beaurocracy gripes about how they could make more outside of the teaching profession so they "deserve" their six-figure incomes. It's two-faced.
It's disgusting, when you consider how little the actual teachers are paid.
It is why private schools can educate children for about half the cost of public schools. They simply don't have the high-priced do-nothing managers in the chain of command. Their teachers are hired and retained on merit, not seniority. Perform, or go away.
In the public system, a teacher just about has to commit a crime against a student to be fired. Incompetency rules.
If you are an incompetent teacher, you can expect lifetime employment, though you might be moved to a less-challenging environment where you can do less harm.
If you are a very incompetent teacher, with a post-grad degree, you can expect to be a school principal or assistant principal.
If you are a very incompetent principal, but you kissed a lot of butts and got a post-grad degree, you can expect to be "promoted" to a mid-level management position, and be over building maintenance, bus maintenance, human resources, etc. Here you will stay where you can do little harm, unless the job of superintendent comes open, and then you might be considered for that job, but only if you are NOT a white male.
Your experience may vary, but this is what I have observed in the schools in my area. I was married to a teacher for 10 years, and have a number of friends in the system. It is garbage.
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Not to mention his sidekick who is esstenially his driver (Director of Transportation[8)])
His driver made twice as much as my mom who's a teacher. At least here in Indiana we're doing the right thing and cutting 50 million from school budgets. The only problem with that is money will still be spent for excess while programs are cut.
All these years the school board and much of our local community has worshiped his butt. But all I have actually see him do all these years (he finally is retiring) was to just stay out of the way while the local kids (high motivation in our county) just went ahead and with the help of the underpaid teachers turned themselves into top students.
For years I have thought bums like Wimmer were grossly overpaid, along with many of his "special" assistants.
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