The School Committee is once again delving into one of the great crises facing public education. No, Silly, not the fact that payroll & benefits increases faster than tax revenue, not the fact that we are facing a $3 million school budget deficit with no plan, not the fact that any likelihood of a tax override stands a snowball's chance in hell of passage, not even the fact that the Teachers' Union has yet to realize we aren't printing money and that the public has lost all tolerance of their stall tactics, not even the fact that the Mirant Golden Goose is about to stop laying 42 million in property tax "eggs". (As if some of them even knew what Mirant was !)
Nope -- we'll be dealing with The Big One. Copier machine expense. For the third or fourth meeting, our elected representatives will once again be debating the virtues of various copier/printer contracts!
This has got to be embarrassing for the professional staff who feels their Board of Directors has so little confidence in them that they are going to second-guess their choice for the office machines they use most often which compose a minor part of the very large budget for which they are held responsible.
The majority of this Committee probably doesn't even know how to operate the machines -- let alone which one is the better mechanical choice -- forget any hope of a financial analysis of potential Lease/Buy or service contract scenarios!!
Get a grip, People!
You hired professional staff for a reason -- you do your job and let them do their jobs! If they don't do their jobs, replace them and keep moving. Maybe we would eventually accomplish something.
In the real world, if an employee doesn't do a good job, management fires them. In Sandwich we give tenure to the under-performers and only fire those doing their job. Or, if the person is really clueless, we elect them to the School Committee.
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| I make a motion that we need to discuss the copiers. Again. And again. And again ... |
4 comments:
OMG! Like, I hope this doesnt mean that we are done talking about which door to lock at the High School. Is that on the agenda too? Hey! If we lock the doors how will the new printers get delivered? These are big issues - maybe we should form a committee? Yeah, thats it....kool.
Why does the supper keep puting these items on
at this point i am watching and waiting for MEJ to just start slapping the s--- out of the arrogant,ignorant,senseless bobble heads... she was so close last night. The fu---- up foursome are an incredible disgrace to education as a whole. I wish the union rep would see that this was a very poor choice if she in fact had anything to do with the new majority sitting in those seats. A school committee where the chairperson can't even structure a sentence correctly or use correct pronunciation of words. The vision MEJ holds is right on track with much needed growth in our schools. MEJ has been the strongest asset this town has seen in a long time and if the new majority had been paying attention to the actual meetings even just last year they would have realized that. We are screwed!
Wow. No wonder this person wishes to remain anonymous.
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