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EDUCATION SUPER PROPOSES TO SAVE MONEY WITH MANDATORY FURLOUGHS
I don’t know why Education Superintendent Jim Rex is the way he is, and I don’t know why he does the things he does, but God bless him because I can’t help but admire his zeal for turning South Carolina’s education system into a used car lot — even if it is destroying the future of this state.
The latest move in Rex’s never-ending bid to convince South Carolinians that the current Ford Tempo of an education system is only a few more “safety kits” away from not exploding is truly a gem.
Rex sent an email today requiring that the bureaucrats at the State Education Department take take five days of unpaid leave by the end of June in order to save a whopping $569,000. That money, of course, will go to investing in the classroom, right? Wrong.
According to Rex, the savings will allow the education department to keep between 13 and 15 lazy bureaucrats that would otherwise be out of a job. Brilliant!
If only there were a way to give Rex a teacher of the year award.
the education department hates kids.
This is a brilliant post. Stunning.
This is what ‘the press’ is spoda be doing.
Man that picture has like 5 things in it.
I kind of feel bad for Rex though; being Education Superintendant of this state is like being commanded to build the Eiffel Tower with a box of pasta. But then he comes up with the plan “eat the pasta” and I stop feeling bad for him.
How do you know that these people are lazy bureacrats, McLovin? Not everyone can do truly noble work like working for the Quinns, of course…so some just have to settle for devoting their professional lives to serving the state’s citizens.
Let’s see, if Rex resigned, that would save another hundred grand……..and public education.
“How do you know that these people are lazy bureacrats?”
Uhh… because they work for the government?
Though you’re right about Quinn and company; they’re a notch lower on the totem poll since they’re the leeches on the backs of other leeches.
Why does the State allow school districts to keep the amount of money spent on attorneys a secret? They are paying for these services with education funds/tax payer money.
Why does the State allow schools that have been found in violation of safeguards and laws, to ignore corrective actions? Even though it is the school in violation, they are afforded unlimited legal assistance in navigating corrective action and ultimately continuing the same cycle that got them in trouble to begin with. There are no consequences for falsifying records at our children’s expense.
If you don’t hold schools accountable for basic laws and rules, why on earth would you expect their spending to be responsible?
Schools are able to justify not providing services by documenting that the child and/or the parents are the reason that the janator was not able to assist with reading and math causing a drop in grades. “We did our part”.
The budget shortage has to be the fault of the parents and students. I’m sure it has nothing to do with training classes in Las Vegas to “Teach” administrators how to keep from spending all of a child’s funding on the actual services that the child needs.
It would be interesting to see a study of kids who have been in special education, where they end up working. Then a comparison of the average income earned per year to the amount of money the school district spent on attorney fees related to special education during the time they were in school.
These kids would be hard pressed to match this allocation of education funds even if you combined all of their classmates salary.
The IDEA outline improvements in education for people with disabilities but the reality is the attorneys likely see as much if not more than ever makes it to the class rooms.