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“In addition, they let their building deteriorate, and then they run to the taxpayers for a building levi. It’s all for the children, you know.”

We are in an area that actually has decent schools mostly because the parents demand that their children excel, and we have a district that is coveted by good teachers because we don’t have many miscreants. That said, a number of years ago (actually when our children were in grade school), our “Education Center” (read district HQ) had two successive “unexplained fires” that destroyed records that were in all probability, not “helpful” to the then current superintendent. “Unburdened” with potential personal litigation, the man left (with some money for his trouble) and went to Berkeley, CA to assume the duties of superintendent there. His replacement was not much better. My wife and I were co-presidents of the PTC (Parent/Teacher Association) and were actually personally threatened by this man for supporting some activities that he was opposed to. Just like the “lawyer analog,” What do you call a failed teacher, you call him superintendent!”