School bosses in Oakland (Mich) wine, dine and live it up on taxpayers' dime (wasting our $$$)

Detroit Free Press ^ | 8-22-03 | LL Brasier

[Dan from Michigan]

DiAnne Cagle Leitermann represented the Oakland Schools in typical style when she attended a wintertime seminar in San Diego.

She took her husband.

She stayed five nights in a five-star Marriott -- for a 3-day conference.

And she signed up for two short workshops: Stress Management and Internet Made Easy.

[Dan from Michigan]

Busted. Time for two magic words for them...YOUR FIRED!!!

The November stay was more costly. The group stayed in 13 rooms at $110 apiece. Their dinner included escargot, stuffed portabello mushrooms, poached salmon, prime rib and veal. They drank vodka, whiskey, gin, Irish coffee and three bottles of wine. Redmond put the $545 meal on his district credit card.

Gee, and I had to stay at el cheapo for my business hotel stays during my job. I should have worked for taxpayers at 100K a year plus bennies.............(/sarcasm).

[dogbyte12]

I teach for the county of Los Angeles. Right now, while they are laying off teachers, merging classrooms, our fearless administrators are taking trips to the Philipines, and to Nigeria to recruit teachers.

That is right. They laid off 10% of the teaching staff because of budget cuts, and are visiting third world nations to recruit teachers. Oh, they slashed a week of summer school this year, and no raises. I hope they enjoy their tans.

[Moose4]

Educrats. No doubt sensitive, caring liberals, one and all, running up thousands of dollars of waste while turning the screws to the taxpayers of their district..."for the children."

If I was King of the World, every single one of these people would be either slinging burgers at Mickey D's, doing menial office temp work, or laying bricks in 100-degree heat for the rest of their lives. And they damn sure would never have a chance to pollute any other childrens' minds again, other than their own.

Homeschool. Private school. Stay involved. Break the power of the teacher's unions once and for all, and don't let the educrats get away with stuff like this. If you don't do it for anyone else's kids, then by God, do it for your own!

}:-)4

[Cathryn Crawford]

This is why I'm taking those education classes...

[martin_fierro]

Leiterman

Her Most Serene Royal Majesty.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Recent news in Minnesota pegged the University of Minnesota as having over 1,200 salaried employees making over $100,000.00. For a salaried base of about 7,500 people, the average salary is about $84,000.00. The faculty payroll is about 2/3 of a billion with plenty of retreats, seminars and wine and cheese luncheons for all.

But, hey, it IS for the children after all.

[blackdog]

I seem to have this uncanny way of lodging in hotels during trips all over the country where a "Head Start" conference is going on. It never fails. Their antics are the same. It's disgusting.

I was ferrying an Aztec from Oakland to South Carolina a while back. It was dark, one engine was really poor, I was crossing the highest part of the Apalachians, and I decided to land at this remote, fly-in hotel atop the ridge in Tennesee. This place was for the elite. It was so inaccessible that there were no roads.

Sure enough though, there was a Head Start conference and some Federal Attorney's group there. They flew in on chartered aircraft. I slept in my Aztec and got a free sandwich from some kitchen lady along with a bottle of Poully Foisse which we shared. The ferry deal included one nights lodging for $50. The hotel rate was $350 per nite.

[blackdog]

And Wellstone internment rallies.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

Wake up call to all shocked:

Every education conference is a scam.

There should be none of them.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Really? I'm shocked! S-H-H-HOCKED, I tell you!

[WorkingClassFilth]

Were you able to unload your stick of bombs on the place after you took off?

[Pan_Yans Wife]

The board approved giving $50,000 to the City of Detroit for its 300th birthday bash in 2001.

But Detroit isn't in Oakland County!

[Dan from Michigan]

To me out here in Livingston County, once I'm East of Novi, it's all Detroit anyway. ROFL

[blackdog]

No sense in ruining the only decent jobs that that region offered to the barefoot "squeal for me Ned" Deliverance crowd. Although I would find caddying, changing sheets, and catering to those types the end of my rope for sure. What sad job prospects for such nice people.

[blackdog]

And to make things clear.....Flares are not bombs.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

I grew up in Milford, and went to Oakland County schools. I agree with you, though.

Downriver and the Detroit area are always considered separate from the rest of the state. It kind of makes me chuckle when thinking of the UP. If a town like Grand Rapids is low on the totem pole of Michigan politics, then how about the likes of Escanaba?

[blackdog]

Is "Escanaba In Da Moonlite" a fair representation of UP? Damn funny flick!

[netmilsmom]

These are the same slime buckets that allowed a charter school to start up in Clarkston. The owners got the building, got the curriculm, got the students, then 5 days before the school was to open, the district pulled the charter. The 100 parents were left high and dry.
Hang em high.

[aruanan]

Busted. Time for two magic words for them...YOUR FIRED!!!

You must have been one of those cheated Michigan students whose education money was spent on junkets instead of on classroom instruction! :-}