April 02, 2008
Northshore school administrators enjoy massive Perks
Wondering how to vote on your next school bond issue? why don't we look beneath the covers a bit!
The Seattle Times has an article today, called "Northshore administrators enjoy perks"
Shown in full on their website at:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/education/2004321668_perks02e.html
It Seems, according to the Times article;
"Administrators in the Northshore School District have bought big-screen TVs, camcorders, home-theater equipment and iPods for personal use, all with taxpayer money. What's more, if the employees leave the district, they get to keep the equipment.
Read the story, and I suspect it will make your School assessment choices easy in the next election, especially if you live in the Northshore school district.
Posted by gschroe at April 02, 2008
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1. "administrators..whose salaries average $103,000 a year...say they work long hours without extra pay..."
Try self-employment, guys. You wouldn't last a week.
2. "Ferwerda, who received a $1,438 reimbursement for a TV monitor she purchased from Costco, said she has used it to read work materials including labor contracts."
And I guess a $150 LCD display makes it impossible to read work materials....Just one more reason on public schools are failing.
3. Northshore gives school districts a bad name. There are several out there who are frugal with their money. But, there are gold-platers and suck on that government money. So, they build these huge monumnets that would make a Mormon temple blush.
4. #2: LOL!
5. It will be interesting to watch the results of the next public school levy that Northshore tries to pass.
6. Maybe a failure of a Bond issue would cause them to lay off alot of these high paid administrative non-teachers, and send them home to watch their new tax payer paid big-screen TV's.
Take the savings and give the teachers the raises they deserve.
7. Gs, good point. Why are there so many administrators? My dad used to complain about the huge number of wasted jobs/adminstration jobs- back in 1969. I could just imagine what he would say now.
8. This reminds me of a story about the CDC last year (Senator's report: CDC wastes millions on unnecessary perks, 6-13-7, USA Today).
A new CDC buiding had a 70 ft. by 20 ft. wall of plasma tvs, I guess so that they could watch every cable channel known to man at once. They had an 18.6 mill. video production studio, zero-gravity chairs and light show in their fitness center etc. They spend millions doing free consulting for TV shows like ER. The CDC spokesman defended all this saying, "We have first-rate facilities for first-rate employees. After years of neglect, we finally have what we need..."
My point is that this kind of thing is the rule, not the exception.
9. Union spokesperson Brittell forgot to metion the technology incentive $$$ the teachers receive just for reading their email. Smoke and mirrors guys - Brittell wants you to overlook the fact that the union wants a raise that will cost the district about $2 million over what the state funds.
10. 7, Your dad was one smart man, and considering that this Northshor establishment is suppose to be a house of education taught by the brightest teachers, I have to say it is now appearing to be the brightest teachers with the greediest administrators. And I might add way to many of these than deserving teachers. Imagine what a teachers salary could be if not for the massive waste of $$$$$ to these administrators.
Sad but true.
They get paid to read EMAILS?
What Planet is that on these days?
Planet Earth..........HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
No Planet Liberal.....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
It's almost too funny to watch!
11. The trouble with education is simple. There is no competition, and no funding of the actual product "the teachers." If the public schools were required to vigorously compete for tax dollars, or be shut down, things would start to change. School Administration overhead should be almost zero. There are plenty of private schools run in this manner that do quite well. And that would free up funds for a vigorous meritocracy for much higher teacher salaries that are strictly based on performance.
We see the same kind of meritocracy, measurable performance and high salaries at tech companies like Microsoft every day. As long as we let unions control our educational system, and remove incentive and market competition, we will have ridiculous examples of corruption such as this.