Muscatine

Teachers pay should be based on thier worth.....i know several teachers who would be working for damn near nothing if their pay was based on how good they were.....why do we need assistant principals and principals.......drop the assistants there is a savings there...i personally know a couple of teachers who couldnt pass a drug test......and im with ya Nigel...u have my vote as well......personally i think the superintendant should have his wages cut....for the better of the school...........

Good points GTA.  Allow me to practice.

Paying teachers based on their worth is tricky business.  In theory, it's certainly the perfect solution.  In reality, if I'm a teacher, and you pay me according to test results, I sure as heck am going to teach to the test at the expense of all else.  This is, of course, the whole problem behind NCLB.  I'd prefer to think that administrators could better use the evaluation tool already in place to weed out the bad ones. 

Assistant principals....I can see the need for an assistant principal at each middle school and the high school, but we've got more than one.  Agree....don't need more than one.  And if we got back to suspending the chronic problem students, we might not even need one.

Drug testing....absolutely. 

And you already know my thoughts on administrative pay cuts.  Right now is the right time.  I guarentee that in today's market, we could find a qualified superintendent willing and able to do the job for a heckuva lot less money. 

cool so when ya applying?...although u do realize that it would be nearly impossible for u to get a job or board position because you have common sense....and that doesnt work with the politics of it all......

Tons of money could be saved by just eliminating waste.  One glaring example just last year was when we had a student diagnosed with a mersa infection.  The district's knee-jerk reaction was to send a truck and a trailer around to various Wal-marts and Sam's Club to purchase all the Clorox wipes in existance and distribute them to all classrooms, busses, etc.  The cost?  Ten Thousand Dollars!  Guess what?  It was discovered soon after, that the wipes weren't effective on the mersa virus!  Oh well.