For anyone here unaware, individual school superintendents all over the nation are more often than not hostile to the teachers that they manage. It’s pretty much par for the course. They are almost always MBAs with zero education background or training, generally hired into the position by anti-education school board members who they are personal friends of. Their only real training is in cost-cutting. They do not understand or appreciate the idea that public services don’t make money.
The pipeline goes: Candidate board members use money and influence to rile up conservative voters to get them onto school board -> Once on the school board they hire their MBA friend to the superintendent role -> school board member then continues to use bully pulpit to scare away incumbent challenges and demonize the district’s most valuable teachers. Very often there is also an element of retired cops in the PTA lubricating the whole process. That’s what a lot of suburban cops do after they start collecting their pensions, part-time volunteer teacher harassment.
This is like, the CORE Moms for Liberty playbook, and the main reason why it is so incredibly crucial to vote in your local school elections. It’s where democracy starts, it’s where individual votes have the most outsized effect on outcomes. So long as the community can be made aware of the issue and motivated to go to the polling place, the process can always be stopped. But somebody in the community needs to be doing that motivation. Why not you? They are SO WEAK, if only you just push back.
Not at all surprising.
For anyone here unaware, individual school superintendents all over the nation are more often than not hostile to the teachers that they manage. It’s pretty much par for the course. They are almost always MBAs with zero education background or training, generally hired into the position by anti-education school board members who they are personal friends of. Their only real training is in cost-cutting. They do not understand or appreciate the idea that public services don’t make money.
The pipeline goes: Candidate board members use money and influence to rile up conservative voters to get them onto school board -> Once on the school board they hire their MBA friend to the superintendent role -> school board member then continues to use bully pulpit to scare away incumbent challenges and demonize the district’s most valuable teachers. Very often there is also an element of retired cops in the PTA lubricating the whole process. That’s what a lot of suburban cops do after they start collecting their pensions, part-time volunteer teacher harassment.
This is like, the CORE Moms for Liberty playbook, and the main reason why it is so incredibly crucial to vote in your local school elections. It’s where democracy starts, it’s where individual votes have the most outsized effect on outcomes. So long as the community can be made aware of the issue and motivated to go to the polling place, the process can always be stopped. But somebody in the community needs to be doing that motivation. Why not you? They are SO WEAK, if only you just push back.