The official excuse is the area's transient military population skews the numbers, but the fact is the numbers are disturbing and the cadre of six figure administrators needs to be held accountable.
Watertown Daily Times | Graduation rates
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
WDT: The Principal Lives in Liverpool ?
The school principal may be your pal but not your neighbor. Buried in this editorial is the news that the local high school principal lives in Liverpool, a Syracuse suburb seventy miles away. Meanwhile the numbers tell the tale...Only six of ten WHS students are graduating.
The official excuse is the area's transient military population skews the numbers, but the fact is the numbers are disturbing and the cadre of six figure administrators needs to be held accountable.
But by whom ? School boards are made up of nice people who volunteer to do what they can to oversee the process. They can ask questions but ultimately have little say in what goes on. Besides, can the public really demand anything of these folks ?
Watertown Daily Times | Graduation rates
The official excuse is the area's transient military population skews the numbers, but the fact is the numbers are disturbing and the cadre of six figure administrators needs to be held accountable.
Watertown Daily Times | Graduation rates
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If the public can't expect accountability, but is still expected to pay school tax, then there's a problem for sure.
Our school board is made up of largely yup people who wouldn't ask any teacher type a question if it made them uncomfortable. Take Mz Gebo. She says she never wants to meet another district employee who has lost his/her job. That's what Gebo thinks her job is about. Making jobs for district employees. The fact that so many taxpayers are hurting and out of work matters not a wit to her. Take Habeeb. St Lawrence U girl. Hubby is a financial man. She thinks the schools are hurting soooo bad. Why, their swimming pools are only half full of water, right Mz Habeeb? Her main concern is making sure her son gets the lead role in the next musical. Take Mz Willis. Supported by her cardiologist husband. Never met a tax bill that scared her. Never met a spending bill that scared her. Never met a tax increase that fazed her. Never met an average Joe. They don't have them at the country club.
I can't wait to see how the graduation numbers are reexplained to show how we really have the top performing school in the Empire State.
I thought we crossed this road a year ago; but we are right back to where we started, so "why did the chicken cross the road"? To "ask for more money, before the sky fell". My point, any person with an education, should be able to figure out the graduation rate, so why is this a surprise to the WHS chiefs? Is it a lack of education?
But we do have the new turf field.
These same administrator types claim to be working 12 hour days. If so, he's leaving at 5am and getting home at 8pm. In other words he's a typical educator. He's a liar.
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