How fitting. I get so busy for a couple of days and nights that I don’t have time to post, and then the first news item I come to is this Education Week piece about New Jersey governor Chris Christie’s slam of a superintendent who is trying to negotiate a $234,065 salary before a salary cap for administration types kicks in. What a nice addendum to my last post.
What’s galling in this case is the headline:
NJ GOV. BACK IN ATTACK MODE OVER EDUCATORS’ PAY
I don’t know about you, but when I see the word “educators,” I think of the people who are actually in classrooms, teaching children. I don’t think of someone who years ago left the classroom to embark on a well-paid career of presiding over a cumbersome bureaucracy, with absolutely no connection between the size of his paycheck and the performance of the system he is supposed to be managing.
And this is where public school mouthpieces like Education Week shoot themselves (and teachers) in the foot, because they identify the people who do the teaching with the people who fill their calendars with meetings and make excuses for declining school performance, all while taking home well beyond what most Americans ever see in a year.
Tarnishing educators is a post from: Sand in the Gears