Have you ever walked around any government office? You'll find a lot of people in their positions of big salary and power aren't qualified. You act like this is something new. LOL! I've worked in it for ten years, it's the dang norm. People get into their positions by scratching backs, doing favors and kissing buttholes. Not necessarily because they're "qualified".
Bruh. I work in government, too, and I can assure you that I have to share oxygen with some of the dumbest people on earth. I am constantly in awe of how lazy they are, too. THE biggest reason I hate being at the office is having to listen to them talk. And I can guarantee you that one of these cerebral eunuchs will get promoted over me one day.
I work in public education. Come hang out with me for a day and you will think you are working with NASA geothermal engineers after you meet the kids and parents I am "blessed" with...
A good friend of mine is a special ed para at a West Omaha middle school.
Many years ago, I was in a grocery store, passing by a section in aisle where they had children's books. I passed by a little girl, her mom, and her grandmother. The little girl was fascinated by the selection - looking at one picture book, then another. The grandmother asked her granddaughter to pick out one she liked best, and she would buy it for her. The mom would have none of it. "She don't need no books!"
Lord help you. My wife has been a school teacher in public education for 25 years and the number of unqualified teachers coming into the system is alarming. She's got five years left, and then she's pulling the plug. The time off and health insurance aren't enough to draw the good ones any longer. Some of the teachers they're allowing in the classroom are shameful.
When you have below average pay for a professional, zero power to discipline students, and get verbally and physically assaulted constantly, it is kind of hard to pull in our best and brightest...
After hearing some of the stories about the way these kids treat bus drivers, you couldn't pay me enough to do that. Hazardous duty pay.
My wife had a student (3rd grade mind you) who told her "I'll slit your throat (insert female dog name)". At first, they were debating whether to suspend him or not. I went to the principal and told her that if he was not expelled, she'd be hearing from our lawyer. He was ultimately expelled.
I bought the home I live in from a bus driver, she was by far one of the worst and most awful people I've ever met in my life. I agree with you overall but hope that she gets treated horribly every single day
I have heard of local bus drivers getting threatened. I feel that in the local schools, they would probably just suspend the kid, let him back in. I have personal experience seeing bad kids screw up continually, but the school is hesitant to send them to alternative school. They just seem to want to pass the buck.
That "poor behavior" is angelic compared to the stuff friends who teach in the Memphis City Schools share. It's out of control there and many of the parents literally don't care. If that's the worst your kids' AD has to deal with he should count his blessings...
I'm with you 100% but they do always say "waste, fraud, and abuse" - I suspect a vast majority of what they've found falls into the other two categories. If they do find fraud, I hope they'll pursue charges, but eliminating waste and abuse alone would save incredible sums of money.
There is at least one other category of these cuts: necessary things that Republicans don't like. Whether it be science/medicine, the National Park Service, or Social Security, there has been little effort to actually justify many of the cuts other than simply reducing the size of government. Sooner or later, the consequences of these indiscriminate actions will matter to all of us (except for the billionaires, who can sit back and laugh).
My 16 yr old was bullied constantly by a juvenile delinquent when she was in middle school. The administration did absolutely nothing about it. I reminded the A.D. that when was whining about the popcorn incident. That he should be paying attention to a lot more stuff than this.
