F in school management

How many times have you heard the teachers and teachers unions being blamed for the failures of our public school systems? Everyone has been to school so everyone is an expert on the subject.

However, if a large corporation were failing, you wouldn’t go down to the shop floor and fire everyone at that level. Rather you would replace the management because of the mistaken decisions they are responsible for.

Now let us consider the recent decision by the board and administration of the Spokane School District to give pay raises to administrators even at a time when some of their employees are making less than the poverty level, teachers’ pay has been cut and class sizes are expanding.

Am I being too rash by equating this selfish money grab made by the Spokane school administrators with the obscene bonuses paid out to the investment bankers on Wall Street in spite of the huge losses to “we the taxpayers”?

If the board and administrators can make such a bad decision at this time of recession, should they be allowed to make other decisions that affect our children’s education? How could they be so out of touch?

Jim and Jeannie Schroeder

Spokane