Autumn in the Schools

Ahhh fall is in the air, the leaves are crisp, the smell of burning leaves permeates our senses, and the stench of municipal corruption smacks us in the face. And by corruption I mean the stench coming from a certain old bank building on Main Street.

The smell grows stronger as one gets closer to the superintendents office. It is as if you have entered a black hole. All money and common sense goes in and it is sucked away to nothingness. Its like a skunk smell, only a special blend will get it off of you. The only real way is to leave….forever.

Another employee has fallen to the hatchet of the Grand Inquisitor. Warn ye those who do not abide to the Divas of the Palace! Pay no attention to the woman behind the curtain! The benefits coordinator made the most serious mistake of all, she failed to bow low enough to Twit and Frack who guard the palace safe. Hmmmm, what did she know about the inner workings that they wanted to crush? She was terminated for “supposedly” releasing salary information to a department head. Hmmmm let me see………don’t department heads ALREADY know the salaries of department personnel? They do the budget for the department don’t they? And isn’t salary information available to anyone under the Freedom of Information Act? So why was she terminated? She was the remaining portion of the old regime and did not fall on a sword for the Diva’s. So she became expendable.

After the Diva of Administration has bloated herself on the city trough and wasted all the money the well has begun to dry up. The state budget has cut funding and halved the lottery proceeds. How will she react to the decrease in funds available? She will throw herself to the ground in front of city council and wail and cry that the district “is struggling” and in need of “local support” when in fact the locality supports the school board budget much better then they should. I can’t decide who has their heads deeper in the sand, city council or the school board! Neither seems to understand the waste the district continues to allow.

Well the leaves on the trees are like the school board budget—red. Let’s see if these nutty squirrels ever had the brains to stash some nuts away for winter.

Coming Soon: The School (GW) With the Phantom Principal
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