[Behind Liberal Lines]

A few months I was talking to a retired HS principal from my old home town.

He pointed out that, when he was there, there were only three principals in the entire school district: himself (HS), the elementary school and middle school principals, and no assistant principals.

Now, there are EIGHT principals. Which, he pointed out, cost the school district nearly a million dollars a year in salary and benefits.

And, at the same time, the district has LOST population.

Of course, when taxpayers voted down the last school budget, what did the school cut? Positions? Of course not: football and band.

[ladylib]

They usually cut bus service first, just to sock it to the parents.

Public education is a racket.