[PGR88]

After two terms on the board she was offered a job as a the business manager for the school district reporting directly to Superintendent of the Schools making $120K/year.

America's public school systems are absolutely bloated bureaucracies. Its a good hiding place for all the liberal arts and woke-studies grads.

But separate from that, and to my original point - being able to speak and write well is critical for success in any field.

[woodbutcher1963]

“being able to speak and write well”

This has really become a lost art. I blame the school systems starting at grade one. I learned to read and write in grammar school. Now, we have kids attending college that can not form a complete sentence. Much less a paragraph or a composition.

Texting has only made it worse. Texting has made it so it is acceptable to write U instead of YOU.