My town just got a new School Superintendent. She is going wild hiring personal friends from a nearby town where she used to work. Our school interviews a variety of job candidates (of course) but lately everyone who is hired for an administration post always comes from that one particular school system a few towns away. Weird, huh?
By the way, our School Superintendent has an assistant. I think that makes sense. But it’s interesting that the assistant has an assistant. And I’m not sure this is true, but someone told me that Superintendent’s assistant’s assistant has an assistant.
Oh, and we’re cutting teaching positions pretty drastically. No one can figure out where the heck the money is going, but the budget for actual education is completely dried up around here.
What you posted is probably SOP for many school districts!:
“She is going wild hiring personal friends from a nearby town where she used to work. Our school interviews a variety of job candidates (of course) but lately everyone who is hired for an administration post always comes from that one particular school system a few towns away. Weird, huh?”
“By the way, our School Superintendent has an assistant. I think that makes sense. But it’s interesting that the assistant has an assistant. And I’m not sure this is true, but someone told me that Superintendent’s assistant’s assistant has an assistant.”
“Oh, and we’re cutting teaching positions pretty drastically. No one can figure out where the heck the money is going, but the budget for actual education is completely dried up around here.”
Also, each Superintendent’s Assistant probably has an office manager and asst. managers, (we used to call them secretaries!)
Sounds like a typical independent school district in Oklahoma.
I guess even the odds eventually favor finding some competent people once in awhile.
Splain to me why each and every K-8 country school needs separate funding and a Superintendent AND a principal. You can’t. Nobody can truthfully. They are the only 6 figure jobs in some counties. Schools are the largest employer in some counties. They at least share a dietician between some of the independent school districts but why they have one I haven’t a clue.