I am a teacher, so let’s see what comes to mind.
*Superintndents have unlimited access to their district’s money. We are labeled an “Impoverishd district” (believe me, that term has many meanings), but weirdly we have the funds to buy cars for the central office staff to drive around in, when they are not driving their his & hers Mercedes ( yes, the suprintndent’s husband has a cushy job in “curriculum” that he got while they lived together.). Friends of the superintendent from down in the delta are retired and have a consulting business that my district employs. We can only guess at the funds that are being thrown at this useless group of women who are getting state retirement & billing the different school districts they are working with. By the way, isn’t that why you ARE a superintendent, to do that?
* Making sure that your friends & relatives all have cushy state jobs.
* Make sure the board members will not ask any questions and rubber stamp whatever you request.
* Hopefully live in a district where the members of the community send their kids to private school because your school is so awful and the other members of the community are so apathetic that you CAN really do whatever you want.
* Maybe in other countries they actually raise their children and work w/ them. The majority in my district & districts like it don’t.
I have dealt with it for years. It’s cultural. Humanism does not work to socialize children in a healthy way so they can learn. Kids don’t do well with amorality. Things of good character and bad character have to be very clear to them and modeled by parents and staff to them. Multicultural is divided diversity race tribes who are taught to hate and blame the others.
We have to go back to western culture’s vision, values and morals of America’s melting pot if we want western quality schools and outcomes. Otherwise we are headed for a zoo with no bars society. Animals don’t learn so well.