The School District Debacle

Forget the name, Gail-Tzipporah Saunders. I am writing this under my new pseudonym, Vladimir Zybrignew, for reasons that may soon become obvious.

While we are at it, people, let me tell you something about a school district. If there is any budget deficit, no matter how great or small, it is usually because of the administration, which is so top heavy, it is going to fall over. (See the figures below.)

Figure # 1 (to your left) represents a normal school district, which in terms of a metaphor means a few chiefs but mostly Indians.

Figure # 2 (south-east) represents certain school district models of the district that shall not be named that is filled with positions like:

Head Crony, Step I
Head Crony Gofer, Step II
Chief Officer in Charge of Volley Ball Nets
Assistant to the Chief Officer in Charge of Volley Ball Nets
Counsel to the Chief Officer in Charge of Volley Ball Nets

Cafeteria Menu Manager
Chief Zucchini Dicer
Assistant to the Chief Zucchini Dicer

Et cetera, et cetera, ad nauseum. All of these positions, by the way, garner enough income to rent a villa along the Mediterranean for five-years with enough left over for a small deposit on a diamond mine in Africa, meaning they don't come cheap.

And that is one way that a school district finds its way to trouble and winds up in the papers.