Comments on: Berman Brings Home a Bad Report Card

By: rickredding

rickredding — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:45:56 +0000

I spoke to Steve Neal after this story posted, and he said that a survey of this type has never been done before. So there is no context. You might deduct from this that anyone with a chance to anonymously bash the boss would do so, but it’s still worth reporting the results.

By: Ann All

Ann All — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:27:53 +0000

I agree that while this doesn’t sound good, there is no context here. How have previous JCPS superintendents fared? Or how about other cities of comparable size, as global asks? I doubt that many superintendents get uniformly high scores on these kinds of surveys.

By: global jones

global jones — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:32:20 +0000

Curious how this compares to other like sized school systems. Coming from the corporate world, the CEO could be handing out bags of money and candy and most everyone would still assume they’re:
A) A criminal
B) A jerk
So i would have to think school systems aren’t much different. You add to that the general bad vibe of the economy and lack of funding, and well that likely means a rather stressed work force to begin with.

I remember some involvements with school districs back home, and how much like gov’t offices they forcibly spend their budgets each year. Whether they needed those books/computers/pencil sharpeners or not. So you tend to get spoiled in always having free capital to spend, then economy/budget tanks…and here we are.