The WDT has come down on the side of superintendents...no salary caps they say...an intrusion on the marketplace.
This editorial is consistent with the tenor of coverage of education issues so its no surprise.
Some say the cap will prevent the filling of the 700plus superintendent jobs statewide....Hello, that's the idea...We don't need that many.
Superintendents are not the only issue in the school spending mess, but they are the easiest to quickly quantify and identify. That's why they are on the griddle.
Watertown Daily Times No salary caps
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I certainly expected the WDT to bend over for the superindents in their quest for more spending money. It had to be this way. The Johnson now have a staff of writers who sole responsibility seems to be to line up almost daily stories citing the pain and suffering our fat and happy educators will be subjected to if their financial demands are not met. These writers, actually more propagandists than real reports, most always interview only members of the overworked and underpaid administrator corps. Despite the taxpayers investing the most money in our nation, NY schools rank 34th, this according to our own Governor. But Jamie Munks and the other cheerleaders repeat whatever the Jackie tells them. Usually a feeble cry for more money with untruths added about imaginary cuts that have never taken place. Jamie Munks, you have no integrity and you are lazy. You pretend to do investigative journalism but your mind is made up. You pretend to work, but you simply dig up the same old corrupted mouthpieces and serve them up as witnesses. And Jackie Boak. You have been given more and more and more money year after year after year. You've accomplish little with it. You're only answer is to beg for more each season while warning of dire consequences that never materialize. The BOCES building has already been named after the previous professional begger. If you want a stature or something built you need to extablish a game of your own. This won't cut it.
An intrusion on the marketplace? Are you kidding me? What product are supers manufacturing, wholesaling, or retailing? What revenue are supers creating or bringing in? Caps represent a necessary correction inside of an out of control 'education' market that is purposefully designed to be immune to market corrections. Significantly, their argument that a cap will prevent the filling of jobs is proof that education administrators are way out of touch with economic reality. If/When those jobs open due to a super quitting or due to a salary cap, hiring teams will be flooded with job applications from people who want the salary, the challenge, and/or the employment for being a high level manager out of work. It's amazing that supers have no idea what it's like 'out there'.
Mayor, can it get any better than this, the WDT coming down on the side of ED. Supt’s. who in a free market economy have a right to have their salaries determined by the same supply and demand model you and your supporters advocate? It’s called Capitalism! I thought you were a big advocate of it in the past. Oh I know the worker doesn’t have a right to establish their fair market value via ‘Collective Bargaining’ and then have that agreement honored, in the world of the Rich and the selfish around here. But just when things look bleakest, I see a turn for the better comes the way of the worker from an unlikely source. I expect the WDT to come out on the side of NFL players next week. Won’t that be grand?
Middle-Class Mike
While I in no way agree with the amount of money we pay these supes. I also don't agree with the state or federal government dictating what salary one can earn. The only people we have to blame for these salaries are our selves, we elect the school boards.
People like to complain but they don't get involved when budgets are being prepared or any other time for that matter. While this proposal to cap salaries sounds good on the surface, it is just local voters losing control over local issues. State and federal government doesn't need more control it needs less(smaller government). If we allow them to set/cap the pay for supes it won't be long before they will dictate your salary.
Correct me if I am wromg but arn't the salary caps to take effect when a new super is hired?
The WDT in a rare performance nailed this editorial 100%.
For those who want cheaper supers', it is simple...get elected to a BOE and hire one at whatever salary you feel is appropriate.
I believe every principal is qualified for the job and they make waaaaaaaaaaaay less, so there is your pool of candidates.
Jeff, you go out on a limb to say the idea is to prevent filling them. You don't speak for Cuobama, the empty suit, you speak for yourself and have been saying the same thing for decades. With no evidence to back up your theory of consolidation, or too many supers'. The fact is that they would still be filled, but supposedly with less qualified and capable people. (unless you think every BOE is filled with rubes. Is that what you think?
The fact is that when consolidation made sense it happened like in Henderson and TI. On the flip side it becomes the problem in places like Watertown. We would be better off if Watertown split up into several smaller districts that simply cooperated with each other.
To Anonymous...8:49 AM...Dis-regarding your grammar, your writing is fluent and reader friendly. Your ideas, however, flip-flop with each paragraph to the point of making one need to re-read and conclude that you are all over the board. No pun intended. To Anonymous...10:49 PM...If your writing were to receive a grade, I would give it an A+. In Spring 2010, I began watching the live video/audio of the Senate sessions. The experience has changed me. Not only did the reality of what actually goes on in the Senate shock me for it being the polar opposite of what voters think is going on there, it was a colossal wake up call to another reality, that of media coverage pandering to who ever is still in power. In short, after watching the Senate in session and learning what was actually in some of the bills, and then reading how the MSM covered those stories, I concluded that the media has a stake in and is enmeshed in the status quo. While there is nothing wrong with that and while one can identify with the human condition of wanting to keep one's job, one learns oh so quickly why it takes a very long time for those voices in the wilderness to finally be heard and quoted with respect in the newspapers. They do eventually get heard, but only when the reporters reach a tipping point (they're usually the last to come around), conclude that a paradigm shift has happened, and decide it is in their best interest to start really challenging the status quo power players with hard ball questions. At any rate, I really liked your post.
Mikey, welcome back. We're you on winter break?
Your most recent offering again illustrates that you have no grasp of reality. The "free market economy" you mention has absolutely nothing to do with the atmosphere that has created an education czar and underling/wanabee staff every few miles here in NYS. By layering corrupt financing practices that span a generation, which cover false taxation schemes, state and federal complicity, local kickbacks and political payoffs that are everything but transparent, we've created a system that is needless, wasteful, counterproduct, unresponsive, entrenched, corrupt. And you, consistant with all that lathers more on the same old system, lines up and bends over. Why am I not surprised? Is this all about wanting a job or do you really believe this crap?
Thanks very much, Ms Smiling. Enjoy your weekend. RV show in Syracuse and in Ottawa, if you're into camping.
If I’d negotiated for these people, you'd soon get an idea of what they're really worth; bend over to that Anon 7:16. Every Education report coming out, indicates our students are not going to be competitive in the global economy, the leading Educators in the country just called for a total revamping of this dysfunctional system. In your world it means cut the local leadership in Education, Supt. types, who by the way seem like excellent educators to me. I say let these people create the curriculum locally that our kids need and the Regents have failed us on. How about that concept Mr. Reality, the real value in a free market is who can educate the kid. What's and educated kid worth to you? To America? We are failing and we’re failing because of knuckleheads who think they’re reality based, instead of in a mind lock zone, for people who can’t reason or get it done. The education of a child is sacred task and it may cost more than some want, but think of the alternative a citizen who can’t compete in a global market their whole life.
Middle-Class Mike
Mike, you have to suck up to the local Supe's, you're trying to get a job on that gravey train. I'll hand it to you, no matter the facts, you are a consistent mouthpiece. More money into the failure hole. That's your game. And you are correct about our kids and the importance of being able to compete in the global market. Thanks to people like you, there is no local market. They have to find a life elsewhere. How is the job search going? They gotta love you. No one I know sings in tune better than you.
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