Get Schooled

By Ernest

March 21, 2008 9:00 AM | Link to this

I’d probably suggest a compensation plan that lowered the base salary somewhat and provide measurable objectives that can result in bonus payments, similar to a sales plan. I think some of the perks Thompson is asking for are somewhat excessive however negotiable.

Looking at the big picture from an economic standpoint along with the immediate needs of the school system, a comp package between 300-325K seems reasonable. At the end of the day, you get what you pay for.

By Lee

March 21, 2008 9:19 AM | Link to this

I thought the problem with Clayton was the dysfunctional school board. Now you’re telling me they want to pay about twice the going rate for a white knight to ride in and save the day.

Wait a minute. I just answered my own question. The dysfunctional school board IS the problem. Exhibit A, see above.

As far as Thompsons demands for 24 hour security, Town Car with driver, a cool $2 mil to pay his buds to come join the party, etc, etc. I’d tell him to go take a flying leap.

By Sven the Blog Catalyst

March 21, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this

$2.3 million to try to fix the fact that Clayton residents voted in an incompetent school board, and then can’t seem to get rid of them. Oh, and the $2.3 million will go to yet another controversial demi-god for baubles and bling and his own “posse.”

Money won’t fix stupid.

By Tony

March 21, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this

Many people immediately dismiss the need to pay good educational leaders more money. Their reason? Because it is school and tax payers shouldn’t pay that much money for good leadership. This kind of faulty logic then excludes schools from seeking out the very best leaders because they come at a high price tag.

Let’s apply some business logic. In the corporate world, what is the pay rate for someone who supervises budgets approaching 1/2 million dollars, 8,000 employees, 60,000-75,000 students, billions of dollars of assets, and is responsible for the educational/economic development of the region?

In my experience, I have seen plant managers with only 100 employees who make well over $200,000. This position is equivalent to the principal level leadership in schools. CEO’s on the other hand easily command much larger salaries and bonuses. This is more on the level of school superintendents. You folks talk about privatization like it’s a miracle cure and then you impose ridiculous and outdated standards on issues like pay for the leadership.

A company that was equivalent in size to Clayton County Schools would pay dearly for the kind of leadership it needed to clean up a mess of these proportions. The contract should have a base pay rate, targets linked to bonuses, and flexibility to bring in a few experts to train others appropriately.

The price for good leadership should be a decision made at the local school board level, and everyone should understand that good leadership comes at a cost.

By Tony

March 21, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this

Correction to my post: the budget figure should say “approaching 1/2 billion dollars”.

By don

March 21, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this

I would have laughed this guy out of the damned meeting. He can drive his damn self places and with his salary, he can buy whatever car he wants, town car, escalade, i don’t really care. if he insists on a county vehicle, i’m sure they can find an unused short school bus for him to roll in. or maybe a decommissioned police cruiser. as for the 24-hr security, how dangerous is it to be a school superintendent honestly? i think this guy watched Lean on Me too many times.

By Camille

March 21, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this

If the guy has a proven track record of being able to come in and successfully clean up messes such as Clayton County has, then by all means the compensation package should be set accordingly. However, if this guy’s prior experience does actually include the same types of problems as Clayton County already has (as has been reported), then he most definitely should not receive that type of a compensation package. In fact, he should not even be considered for the position.

Good leadership does come at a cost, but the candidate’s background should show that he does possess good leadership skills.

By JustMe

March 21, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this

Isn’t the philosphy when job hunting is to ask for everything and see what they offer? Why not ask for a driver, a car, and so on? This doesn’t mean that he will get it.

Now, as one hunting for a job, if you ask for too much then you price yourself out of the market. And, IMHO, this is what Thompson has done.

I agree that the problem with Clayon Co isn’t the super, but rather the BOE. Thompson cannot change the BOE. In fact, most will say that the super works for the BOE.

So, if Clayton Co keeps putting crazy people on the BOE, the super means nothing. Good management starts from the top, down. And, since the top is the BOE, Clayton Co seems to be doomed regardless of who the super may be.

By catlady

March 21, 2008 10:37 AM | Link to this

IF he has a clean record (which by reports he may not have), pay him $250,000 plus NORMAL bennies. AS SOON AS the system is back in SACS good graces, he gets an additional amount of pay as a bonus, say $200,000, one time. He has a REASONABLE budget for his cronies (say, $500,000 per year) who can get modest bonuses when SACS re-accredits. He is on a very short term contract with semi annual review for progress made. NO special car or other perks unless he pays out of his pocket. And a clause that recoups the money from him personally if he does anything shady.

It comes as no surprise that this board has chosen a headhunting firm that has come up with these candidates. I foresee a long road ahead for Clayton County, until the people take it seriously. Don’t think this “effort” is anything but a show. The whole tenor of it is continued greed and mismanagement.

By Ernest

March 21, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this

Good points Tony! Another thing to add is what impact this person will have on the overall business climate and housing values in Clayton. We all know a strong K-12 system has a direct impact on this.

I’m not aware of anyone that would take a job like this for peanuts….

By Lee

March 21, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

God, what a f*** up mess…

Thompson’s contract at his previous job was not renewed due to his SPENDING and PERSONALITY. He is now a “education consultant”. He wants Clayton to pony up $2 million for “his own consultant team.” You don’t have to be Nostradamus to predict the outcome if Clayton hires this guy.

Wood resigned from his last job “after an audit revealed school officials falsified construction documents.” That’s not too encouraging either.

These are the two best candidates that your search team could come up with?

In addition to the ~$250-300k Clayton will pay one of these two yahoos, they are also paying $145k in severance pay to former super Pulliam and $176k to current interim super Duncan - who will probably be assigned (at a very good salary) to some other do nothing job.

Congratulation Clayton voters. Ya’ll are going to be paying for this out the nose. I just hope Rainman Purdue doesn’t decide that my tax money has to bail you out.

By Bob

March 21, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this

The Salary for fixing Clayton County seems excessive, but part of the problem is they actually want someone to come in, fix the problem and then have to leave. That doesn’t sound like too good a job UNLESS you are really paid well. A good base salary plus incentives for actually correcting the problem are called for.

The staff payroll depends on the capabilities of the individuals that will be hired. How many people are we talking about? I’m assuming that they will also be asked to move to Clayton County for a short time, then find employment somewhere else… no roots. You may have trouble finding someone for that too. Good Luck.
The students deserve the best they can get.

By jim d

March 21, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this

Congratulations Laura,

You’ve provided a perfect example of incongruous words.

good superintendent

By jim d

March 21, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this

Dear CCPS parents,

Take Alvin——————PLEASE

By Lee

March 21, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this

There is a video on YouTube of the Mill Creek fight. I don’t know if this is the same one that got pulled earlier (or if it is the same Mill Creek).

Let’s just say that $15k I pay is private school tuition looks more like a bargain everyday.

By aaa

March 21, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this

200 a year tops

By The truth

March 21, 2008 12:57 PM | Link to this

They should hire that guy from the movie “Lean on me.” Morgan Freeman.

By Jason

March 21, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this

“Let’s apply some business logic…I have seen plant managers with only 100 employees who make well over $200,000. This position is equivalent to the principal level leadership in schools. CEO’s on the other hand easily command much larger salaries…”

Yeah, but we’re not talking about a (profit-seeking) business. If Thompson’s main objective is to make a lot of money, he should be working in the private sector, not the public. Although, I suspect—like most superintendants with pseudo-advanced degrees—he’d never make it past middle management in a competitive, meritocratic environment.

By Blue Eyed Devil

March 21, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this

Lee, I just saw the video, too. I agree. These kids act like nothing more than over-excitable feral animals. Why would I want my kids to go to school with that??? Makes writing those private school checks a little more palatable every month.

By Lynn

March 21, 2008 2:03 PM | Link to this

By alice

March 21, 2008 2:12 PM | Link to this

Take Crawford Lewis please! I bet he would do it for less.

By J. D.

March 21, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this

Why don’t we require the present school board to personally pay for the interim person. Thus, the taxpayers don’t care who they hire as long as he or she gets the job done.

By JustMe

March 21, 2008 2:40 PM | Link to this

J.D. - That is the best idea I’ve heard of yet!

By Bobbo

March 21, 2008 2:49 PM | Link to this

Thompson wants entirely too much money. If I were a taxpayer in that county I would contact EVERT member of the board or whoever was in charge of hiring a replacement and make it clearly known how fiscally irresponsible it would be to pay him that kind of money. Since it is to be atemp job they should rent him a place to live but nothing too extravagant and tell him NO on his $2 million for a consultation team.

By Bobbo

March 21, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this

Thompson wants entirely too much money. If I were a taxpayer in that county I would contact EVERT member of the board or whoever was in charge of hiring a replacement and make it clearly known how fiscally irresponsible it would be to pay him that kind of money. Since it is to be atemp job they should rent him a place to live but nothing too extravagant and tell him NO on his $2 million for a consultation team. I would hire the Santiago guy since he seems to be low maintenance.

By Todd

March 21, 2008 2:53 PM | Link to this

I have taught for five years. What is a superintendent paid so much for? He is an administrative job who merely enforces the school board regs.

And trust me, he doesn’t even do it himself. He merely oversees those who oversee those who oversee those who oversee those who oversee …

Nowadays nearly all oversight is by the state and federal government, so why do we have so many superintendents in so many counties and independent school districts making so much money? It is not like counties are that different as far as actual regs. The difference is the students who are taught and the parents.

By Rural Ga. Mom

March 21, 2008 2:55 PM | Link to this

Where are the salaries posted? Can you provide a breakdown based on salary per student ratio? I’ll bet there are some rural county supers making alot more per pupil. We are overloaded with superintendents (1 super and 2 assistant supers) in our county which has only one HS, one Elem. School, and one Middle School. All three make around 100k each in our title 1 district/county.

By Todd

March 21, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this

Rural Ga. Mom, if you are a Title I school, that means you are a welfare school. So you are getting a large chunk of that from Uncle Sam.

By Rural Ga. Mom

March 21, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this

I have taught for five years. What is a superintendent paid so much for? He is an administrative job who merely enforces the school board regs.

His or her job is to be an overpaid government employee. They think those in the private sector have lots of perks and time off. Many government employees don’t have a clue as to how hard most private sector people work, not to mention the stress of possibly losing your job. I don’t think a teacher in our system every worries about job security. The educrats fear we will realize how little they do. The primary function of the three supers in our small district is to apply for awards. They submit many applications and then overpublish the silly awards they receive. IF they could figure out how to increase test scores, they could receive awards that way - from the state Doe. But that is much harder and requires more “work” than submitting award applications.

By Lee

March 21, 2008 3:10 PM | Link to this

Rural Mom, try this link to get to the salaries.

By Rural Ga. Mom

March 21, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this

Todd- Rural Ga. Mom, if you are a Title I school, that means you are a welfare school. So you are getting a large chunk of that from Uncle Sam.

I have a hard time forgetting that I fund Uncle Sam and want a big “say” in Uncle Sam’s payouts.

By Todd

March 21, 2008 3:42 PM | Link to this

**Todd- Rural Ga. Mom, if you are a Title I school, that means you are a welfare school. So you are getting a large chunk of that from Uncle Sam.

I have a hard time forgetting that I fund Uncle Sam and want a big “say” in Uncle Sam’s payouts.**

Most people who live in a Title I school district do NOT pay taxes. They are so poor that they get them back. They may pay taxes through the cigarettes, alcohol, fast-food, and lotto tickets they get, but nearly all their income tax is refunded.

I now ignore it, but when I first started teaching and I would see the kids with their free lunch, buying $1.00 drinks, candy bars, and ice cream, I would get angry. I worked as a cashier at Publix in college and continually saw the nasty ladies pull the wet, folded cash out of their nasty bras and pay for the little food they could not charge on their EBT cards. These people bought the fattest, unhealthiest food.

Their kids would have their new clothes with tags still on them and Nike shoes.

They infect our society. We need to tie their tubes when they get EBT. This way my future 9th grade students will not tell me they are pregnant so they can get EBT …

By Miss Daisy

March 21, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this

I agree with Tony, but an extra 2 million, a car, driver and 24 hour security is not necessary. A $200+ yearly salary I can work with, but tell him that Hoke’s job is taken and there are no available town cars.

Mill Creek is in Gwinnett, so Clayton County is NOT the only dysfunctional district. They are just UNABLE to hide their transgressions.

By catlady

March 21, 2008 5:40 PM | Link to this

Our supt including bennies (and some pretty special bennies, I might add) gets very nearly $200,000 for 4,000 students. Pretty pricey, huh? How many other systems pay close to $50 per kid? ‘course, our head coaches are very well compensated, too, and have some “special considerations” that would be the envy of Fortune 500 firms. I caution those who use the link to realize there are some salary considerations that apparently are NOT included in the pay listing. I guess it depends on what ithe “consideration” is called.

By Realist

March 21, 2008 6:22 PM | Link to this

As someone who recently moved to the education field from the private sector, I just want to assure RuralGAMom that she has NO idea what she is talking about. You wouldn’t believe the difficulty of these “overpaid government jobs” you’re railing against. I’m sure she have a difficult job, but don’t instantly dismiss the demands placed on our public school system employees.

By happy2teach

March 21, 2008 6:28 PM | Link to this

The sooner public education moves to a salary system similar to the private sector, the sooner our schools will start to rebound. Great people will enter the field, and stay in the field, if they are able to secure more pay for doing a great job. Obviously, this superintendant gets that and I hope he brings his philosophy to the teachers in Clayton.

By Attn: Clayton Parents

March 21, 2008 6:58 PM | Link to this

Norreese Haynes TRIED to tell you the SACS report was a sham but you wouldn’t listen. So now YOU get to pay through the nose. You’re getting cubic zicroniums at Hope Diamond prices, AND Ericka Davis gets to take YOUR money to try to make HER look good.

Ya happy? Good. Now open up your wallets!

By caryn

March 21, 2008 7:23 PM | Link to this

Depends…. In rural Jenkins county, we pay a complete idiot to do a sub par job. She costs a fortune because she is incompetent and has hired several more paper pushers to help her do a job she should be able to do herself. All the while, she’s cut 15 teaching positions out of three schools. The chairman of the board thinks he is next in line to the Messiah himself and everyone around here shakes their heads, makes fun of them, but does nothing!

By TW

March 21, 2008 9:39 PM | Link to this

Attn: Clayton Parents - well put. I have no sumpathy for them. Complacency in this country has bred idiocy. The people of a democracy get the government they deserve. Same with the clown we reelected in ‘04 - happy now, morons? You’re broke, out of your house, no health insurance, gas going to $4, our soldiers continuing to die, but be real proud of yourselves for being part of the phantom ‘war on terra’. Hey, wht wasn’t there a war on whitey when McVeigh bombed Okla bldg? Maybe because there wasn’t a moron in the White House???????

Got Brains, America??????????

By Fred

March 21, 2008 9:48 PM | Link to this

Shoot, I’d do the job for $150,000 plus a monthly auto expense. Give me a 2 year contract to get the school district back on track. $2,000,000 for consultants and other various and sundry things, no way.

By Nymel

March 21, 2008 10:02 PM | Link to this

Give us TAXPAYERS a BIG break. While I have no knowledge of brother Thomson’s or Wood’s “tending” abilities, the fact remains that the failings are of the micromanaging board of education… namely, that of Erica Davis and the good (sic) Rev. Wendell Johnson. Davis is an immature, all to often camera/audience player. Her over reaching act of a cute (sic), giggly, “I-alone-know-the-score” high school freshman is only symptomatic of the lack of leadership of our board. Rev. (sic)Wendell Rod Johnson is even worse, if that can be ( for the two or three citizens who brave the gong-show quality of our taped board meetings, please note the good (sic) Wendell’s speaking level. So smooth,
so mellow, AND SO PHONY! One can almost see his “I’m so worthy and pious that I dare not lift my voice much above a whisper”. Erica and Wendell as leaders of the board (any board) what a combination!!

By Buff

March 21, 2008 10:49 PM | Link to this

2 mill to bring his consulting firm on board!? Sounds like a conflict of interest to me. Maybe the Clayton County School Board wants to dig a deeper hole to get out of; remember - SACS is watching!

By em

March 22, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this

Prior to becoming a teacher, I worked in both the public and private sectors. Comparing salaries between the two sectors is like comparing apples to oranges. Private sector motives are driven by profit and private sector management is beholden to its stockholders; whereas, the major portion of the public sector’s income comes from tax dollars. Having said that, in more cases than not, I have found leaders in education to be inept. While the good principal or superintendant is rare, many have risen to their level of incompetance. Unfortunately, education tends not to draw the best and brightest. Entrance requirements to schools and colleges of education are not rigorous and neither is the course work. Many graduate leadership programs in education have simply become diploma mills that spout the latest in educational “research” and these “leaders” buy into it spending untold thousands of dollars on the latest educational fad . I have seen incompetant leaders squander taxpayer dollars on capital projects for extracurricular activities at the expense of instruction. Since I entered education, I have witnessed nepotism and cronyism on a grand scale; that was not allowed with any of my previous employers. I have known incompetant teachers promoted to leadership positions either to get them out of the classroom or because they knew someone higher up. And finally, I have seen some talented, albeit few, talented leaders run off by boards or superintendants simply because their talent was a perceived threat. Should school systems pay for talented leadership? Most definitely, but finding that talented leadership in a sea of incompetance is the real challenge.

By BillyRip

March 22, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this

The only reason we’re talking about this Superintendent situation is because both candidates are BLACK. When and if a White candidate arose, (and he will) we won’t have all the controversy. The White Media wants to pick the Superintendent.

By Painful Truth

March 22, 2008 1:39 PM | Link to this

Neither of these candidates seemed to have really helped their former systems academically, so maybe the board believes that NO ONE can raise the scores— perhaps the best they can hope for is to make a big show and blow some cash, then act shocked and surprised when it doesn’t come together.

If academics isn’t the main criteria, why doesn’t the board just go ahead and hire the warden at Angola? He’s probably the only one that could truly keep order in the Clayton schools, and they probably could get him a hell of a lot cheaper.

They could then use the savings to build a big fence around all of it so the surrounding community will be safe.

By high school physics teacher

March 22, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this

What a ridiculous question! I am so tired of the corporate-zation of education. Anyone who is education for money should go get an MBA and get out of the field. Our “product” is intangible; I lament the corporate-zation of education.

By high school physics teacher

March 22, 2008 4:27 PM | Link to this

Not to mention, anyone who is IN education for money should just get out of the field. Go into medical sales, law, banking, insurance. That’s what I would recommend to this superintendent candidate. Leave us alone! Check out theladders.com. You see education in there? I didn’t think so. See if you can get into the Wharton School of Business.

By Trapped Clayton Resident

March 22, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this

You cannot put a price on something as valuable as a QUALIFIED African-American superintendent.

That is because such a thing does NOT exist.

Clayton is a cesspool full of thugz, coonz and ignorant ghetto trash.

Morgan Freeman should come here and go to work with a baseball bat on all this subhuman garbage.

Nuke this place, and put us all out of our misery.

By BillyRip

March 22, 2008 7:53 PM | Link to this

All this for a Temporary Superintendent!!! OK, I get it! Black people, let’s just give up and let the white people that owns and control everything, the media, the newspapers, the TV, the majority of all businesses in the county, select a Superintendent! We already know what color that person would be! That person would be the color of the people hiding behind the scenes stealing the people of Clayton’s taxpaying dollars for years. They’re behind the scenes, but KLANCO wants someone who will keep them concealed. They know; you can’t handle the TRUTH, about all this mess!!!!

By Ron

March 22, 2008 8:53 PM | Link to this

Obviously, the search for a super-superintendent has been done on a somewhat limited basis. Both seem like Yahoos with their past records of “shadiness”. This Thompson fella and his demands would fit right in with everything else that has been taking place in Clayton County.

By BigWhiteKKKlansman

March 22, 2008 10:33 PM | Link to this

BillyRip,

Don’t make me come down to your crib and teach you some “MannerZ,” BOY.

By BillyRip

March 22, 2008 11:45 PM | Link to this

Oh, Oh, I’m so scared masse!! However, I’ve got the midget sheriff and his posse hanging out in my front yard all day everyday eating ribs, shortcake and drinking coffee. Luckily, no one have sold me out for a good southern fried SPAM & EGG Sandwich or should I say sanmich. POWER TO THE PEOPLE! You MOTHER!!!

By BilboRip

March 23, 2008 12:15 AM | Link to this

Hey ya’ll, What bout my fried SPAM,EGG & Gov’ment Cheese Sanmich. OK, I know what I’ll do; I will direct all my WMD’s toward KLANCO, I mean CLAYCO, and hope all the nuke fallout will blow south as to not affect,Fulton, North Georgia, Mark Elgart and his white azz kids the like!!!

By Voice of Reason

March 23, 2008 12:39 AM | Link to this

Mark Elgart(SACS) is like the, “Georgia Order of the KKK Grand Dragon”!!! Black People speak up or your 53,000 black kids will suffer. The choose is YOUR!!!!!

By Leviticus

March 23, 2008 12:48 AM | Link to this

Them 53,000 black kids in ALREADY suffer.

Ever see them try to articulate a thought, NOT talk in a movie theater, obey the law, be able to use a turn signal, write a blog entry in proper English or be able to open a checking account?

Uh, no.

By Fed Up

March 23, 2008 12:55 AM | Link to this

Has anybody seen a picture of these guys? Are they Black or White? I’m guessing by the demands they are Black.

By BillyRip

March 23, 2008 1:03 AM | Link to this

Leviticus, Please guy, proper English!!! even a Brit will tell you, Leviticus your English is F**ked up!!! My god and you think you’re smart. It’s a world stage and you’re my friend is an idiot!!!

By Don Rickles

March 23, 2008 2:58 AM | Link to this

We should have a special class where we teach greasy anchor babies how to stand still in a grocery store! then we could teach them how to pick up all the trash in their yards in front of their trailers.

By Mike Hunt

March 23, 2008 5:14 AM | Link to this

The Rock says “know your role, and shut your mouth”

Also, in the famous words of The Wire’s Senator Clay Davis: Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.

By luvs2teach

March 23, 2008 9:13 AM | Link to this

Laura, it’s official. No more Clayton County blogs, please - for the sake of this blog and the civil public discourse some of us have come to enjoy here.

Yikes.

By letsbefrank

March 23, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this

If you cross referenced all the school board members in every county in Georgia with the folks that get the contracts to supply food, soap, lawn care, roofing, books, furniture, tables, paper, toilet paper, office equipment etc. you will find it’s a close knit group. Being on a school board is like winning the lotto and you spread the money around, only its better cause its not your money it’s the taxpayers and there’s tons of it. How many school boards are there well its way over a 150 and you would not let 80% of the people on them baby sit your young children. The very fact this guy wants to bring in his own gang of fixers says volumes.

By Craig

March 23, 2008 10:05 AM | Link to this

Since when has “greedy” become a characteristic of effective superintendents?

By BillyRip

March 23, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this

Lets Be Franks, Summed it up for you, Clayton County, when they said; the folks that get the contracts to supply food, soap, lawn care, roofing, books, furniture, tables, paper, toilet paper, office equipment etc. you will find it’s a close knit group. Being on a school board is like winning the lotto and you spread the money. See that’s the problem in Clayton; 90% of the population is black taxpayers; 100% of the school system’s contracts are with white vendors/contractors; those are concealed vendors/contractor behind this whole school board debacle. “No black vendors/contractors” means “No black return of their tax dollar” Why you might ask, Clayton County School System has been their “Cash Cow” for years and they can’t let go! A new impartial Superintendent may destroy their “Cash Cow” Now, you see! It’s not about those 53,000 black kids, it’s about MONEY!! Remember, they control the media and feed you what see; they will color the school board UGLY, until they get someone position to continue the status quo. That’s what a superintendent worth!!! STAKEHOLDERS

By CCBOE Lawyer

March 23, 2008 4:48 PM | Link to this

Let put these two Black candidates first and dirty them up, then we’ll give them a clean white man. Yah, that should work.

By Right?

March 23, 2008 9:52 PM | Link to this

You get the school board you vote for.

By JMB

March 23, 2008 11:20 PM | Link to this

Clayton County: take a long look at these candidates. This situation reminds me of the Andre Hornsby fiasco in Prince George’s County, Maryland. The county hired him anyway despite a similar troubling past track record, and he screwed ‘em over. You can put lipstick on a pig, people, and it’s still gonna be a pig.

By Give Em The Boot

March 24, 2008 5:44 AM | Link to this

Read about the school board at [http://www.give-em-the-boot.com]

By Lil Vic

March 24, 2008 5:47 AM | Link to this

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By Karla

March 24, 2008 8:18 AM | Link to this

Since when are people compensated for the difficulty of their jobs? I am shocked to hear that rational people would go along with this, particularly when teachers are facing a potential salary cut. If there is so much money available to be doled out to one person, we need to rexamine school funding.

By jim

March 24, 2008 9:36 AM | Link to this

CCBOE Lawyer: First, we don’t need to “dirty up” these two candidates…they have already done that all by themselves…that’s why they were both told to “hit the bricks” by their last employers. Second, the Clayton School Board wound’t hire a white man if he walked into Clayton County holding Jesus by one hand and Martin Luther King, Jr by the other.

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