Oh and I have numerous education clients. All very good, very nice, hard working people. I have the chance to talk to many of them one-on-one and of course you hear about money this and money that all the time. Yet, I'll often hear stories about how basically non-essential positions that are paid six figure salaries are created all the time for people who don't deliver anything to the bottom line of educating kids, but they do plenty of things like travel around on the district dime to conferences, and conventions getting "ideas".
Also, don't even get me started on school boards, and parents, both the helicopter and the absent.
I also see plenty of pet projects in our education system, resume builders. Lots of money spent on a niche and ever so worthless classroom technology that never gets used (one example), while core infrastructure that can drive real educational content into the classroom and hands of the students is neglected.
I've seen interviews with so called educators when they're asked about how much money per student would make their school systems better (they already spend a lot) and their response was in essence saying they pretty much wanted a blank check. :To mean that screams no accountability.
I am also in plenty of schools in the region and I see first hand how their run. I can tell you story after story about schools where there's discipline and accountability, but somebody gets a burr up their a$$ about the principal at the school and the school board runs them out, only to replace them with a dumba$$ that either the board, senior administration or parents can control, and the place goes to hell.
