There are an easy target....Those school administrators Governor Cuomo is poking fun at...Yes they are paid a lot, but the argument is they are smarter and more qualified for what they have to do than a politician like Andrew Cuomo.
Superintendents, the argument goes, are at the top of their game and should be treated like hospital administrators and captains of industry...After all, they have in their hands the fruit of our society....the next generation of children.
They are a collegial group, these 700 plus supertindents, dotted across the Empire State.
They preside over and perpetuate a crazy quilt system of school districts, laden with administrators all executing the same set of educational guidelines from the state.
The volunteer school boards are a scant match for these professionals, who when in a bind just quietly move to another district. That happened in Carthage a couple years back when a superintendent who had a multi year contract got in hot water and the hullabaloo was secreted as he was hired in another district as if nothing had happened.
You see the superintendents are so unique in talent and important in function, a local school board made up of the great unwashed considers itself lucky to land one of the professionals, and money is seldom an object.
Then here comes Andy the Governor making fun of those salaries.
Just who does he think he is ?
Cuomo Criticizes School Officials’ Salaries - NYTimes.com
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I appreciate you giving the opposing view even if it is satire.
But you failed to mention that they are presiding over education guidelines directed by our court system as well as the state.
You failed to mention that the unwashed masses that make up the BOE are the ones that set these pay rates each and every time they advertise and fill the position.
Then here comes Andy the Governor making fun of those salaries.
Just who does he think he is ?
Who is he? He is a democrat of course.
Democrats fight on the front lines everyday in the war of class. (Class warfare).
Democracy has nothing to do with being a democrat. As the story goes…the local taxpayers are too dumb to elect or be elected to the board of education and most definitely too dumb to set the pay for the superintendent they recruit and hire.
Maybe he can take a cuo from Obama and send ACORN to their homes to flush them out with broomsticks and pitchforks?
BTW…it would be generous to equate these superintendents to captains of industry. That is a demographic of a much hire talent pool. But they are on par with divorce attorneys, judges, low level financial services players, physician’s assistant, small business owners, etcetera.
The State should mandate Consolidation of school districts under 1000 enrollments and simultaneously re- organize by county and have one super- ordinate per county-- Cap taxes at 1 percent --
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1245 You are absolutely correct. That is to supers, principals, of course assistant supers and superintendants assistants. You heard from the superintendants at board meetings you must pain and sacrifice.. That is everyone but teachers, superintendants and assistant supers principals... School boards must cut.. That is service workers, cooks, drivers monitors probably teachers assistnats... I,m not a good speller but I am a realist. People like you must go...
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