Indianapolis Public Schools announced recently that they will lay off up to three hundred teachers and forty other employees in addition to potentially closing more schools. Additionally, several administrators will be seeing pay cuts. This comes in the same school year as Dr. Eugine White, IPS superintendent, created two new administrative positions that took over the vast majority of his responsibilities, freeing him up to "raise money and building community relationships."
Surprise, Surprise. Dr White, The Great Delegator, now has to lay off more teachers and close more "under preforming" schools because his wallet isn't fat enough yet. Granted, most of his administrators are making over $80,000/year despite their blatant incompetence in the field of education. Are you serious, White? Do you think that now, because your only job is to be a six-figured figure-head you're not responsible for the failing schools which you've overseen for the past four years? I don't know what you're doing to earn your $175,000 with a potential bonus of $15,00/year, but it's not enough. For that money, I'd expect IPS students to AT LEAST be able to pass ISTEP. It's not the teachers, it's not the students. The problem is that your rhetoric of cut, cut, cut may be appeasing deadbeat parents, but it's enabling this crisis. You should be ashamed of yourself, Dr. White. I know I am.
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I agree totally with Tim. Laying off hundreds of teachers is not the answer. Cutting pay to me would seem like a better and simpler option. These people try their hardest every day to teach at a school, that seem to me designed to fail. People should not look to fill their pocket at the expense of hundreds and their families. That is pathetic.
ReplyDeleteTim is completely right. If this White guy's only job is to fund money for the school, why is it continuously failing and having to lay off so many teachers because there is not enough money? Rather than laying off so many teachers and staff members, it would be in the best interest to lower the pay of $80,000/year instead. There are plenty of teachers out there who make less than that and still get by. Better to have a low paying job than no job at all.
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