IMAGINE a corporation with a chief executive officer whose vision and management skills resulted in unparalleled product improvement. Imagine the company about to face some of its biggest challenges. No one would think it a good idea to change leadership. Yet, that is what is about to happen to the Montgomery County school system if officials don't figure out a way to hang on to Schools Superintendent Jerry D. Weast.
Now that the Board of Education vs. Montgomery County looms on the horizon, does the Washington Post editorial board plan to continue its cheerleading for Jerry Weast and his generosity in handing out "salaries and benefits?" or maybe, just maybe, will the Post come to realize that Jerry Weast's spendthrift ways have put all county residents into a deep, deep financial hole, that it will take years to dig out of?
Enough! Wasn't it just a few months ago Jerry Weast was saying that MCPS wanted "half" of the county's bonds? The very same bonds that may now cost the citizens even more, if Montgomery County loses its AAA bond rating! We can't afford Jerry Weast's "management skills" anymore.
Weast will just take the Post Editors out to lunch as usual and they will write a glowing editorial about how sometimes litigation is necessary.
ReplyDeleteWe only had to wait a few hours to see what the Post has to say:
ReplyDelete"But in this fight, the council has the moral high ground. Council members argue (correctly) that other areas of county government have been bloodied far worse than the schools."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/07/AR2010050704978.html
Imagine...a CEO who gets 100% of his money from the taxpayers...Imagine...a private sector company with capitilization of over $2B that never gets audited; that never pays fines; that is never scrutinized by an elected government body; that is never subject to any laws...Imagine...a Board of Education, a nationally known newspaper, and an electorate that believes children are 'products'
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