$400,000 salary for a superintendent? That's ridiculous. Spend at least half of that on the kids in school instead.

@Richard-vq7ud

2 жыл бұрын

This is why im against "fully funding" education. The more we throw at education, the bigger the fraud and waste.

@bradobbink6564

Жыл бұрын

take it from the school board salaries or income and still get rid of him.

Even his actions show he could give a flip about the parents' disgust. Sad

A $400k salary is absolutely ridiculous. Kids need that money!

@teresachapman205

5 жыл бұрын

It's not about the children for most administrators/board members/superintendent at LSR7... They also despise most teachers that, actually, work nonstop to help students succeed. They are lost souls hiding behind their legal protection... They worship their attorneys and their 'concern' for children is all for show!

@mahatmacoat6516

3 жыл бұрын

TAXPAYERS need that money.

@normross7424

2 жыл бұрын

Taxpayers need to keep their money.

@jayburns273

2 жыл бұрын

Kids first

@hunchochristian233

2 жыл бұрын

Went to lee summit schools. I can definitely tell you it was the poorest school I’ve been to, for science projects we would use stuff like cereal and in math we did lots of group projects due to there being no paper or ink for almost the entire year.

He makes $400,000 a year?! That is insane. Especially when frontline teachers are literally making about one-tenth that amount.

@curtiswaters7415

3 жыл бұрын

$40K/year? Is that accurate? In Ontario, Canada the average high school teacher makes over $100K a year. Teachers have the most important job in the world, $40K isn't enough.

@tuesdaypatience

3 жыл бұрын

@@curtiswaters7415 I live in the Midwest and starting teachers make about $40K to start.

@coryCuc

3 жыл бұрын

@@tuesdaypatience Come to Texas. DFW STARTING teacher salary is 55k. I taught in St. Louis and my starting salary was 34k. It's a joke. There are high paying teaching jobs/districts out there. Just gotta find them.

@robertballuumm730

3 жыл бұрын

Same salary as the President of the USA?

@coryCuc

3 жыл бұрын

@@robertballuumm730 Yep. Superintendent salaries are absolutely ridiculous. And the board, with just a pen vote to increase their salaries. It's crazy.

I believe the President of the USA makes about 400K. Do ya think maybe 400k for a School board super is a touch high?

The farther you are from the actual classroom, the more money you make. It's outrageous!

@ProfessorTB

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly right, Mer.

@Richard-vq7ud

2 жыл бұрын

This is why im against "fully funding" education. It is a system rife with fraud and waste.

And people wonder why more and more parents are home schooling their children.

@deanhenthorn1890

3 жыл бұрын

Home schooling your kids doesn’t reduce the amount of school taxes paid to this man salary increase. That’s the whole point, why should he make 400K while the same teachers make 40K and less. Why should you pay school taxes if your kids don’t attend school?

@coryCuc

3 жыл бұрын

@@deanhenthorn1890 The point Christopher is making is that homeschooling allows YOU to be in control of how/what to teach your kids, not some stupid Superintendent making $400k who has no clue what he's doing and couldn't teach worth a darn. It has nothing to do with paying taxes. But to your point, you're correct. No one should be paying taxes to a school if your kid doesn't go there. That's why we should abolish the Department of Education. Give every tax penny to the parents and let them see fit how to use it-whether that's a charter school, home schooling, private, parochial etc...

@stevelopez372

3 жыл бұрын

@@coryCuc You are right. But try bucking the mighty Teachers Union when it comes to implementing your suggestions.

@coryCuc

3 жыл бұрын

@@stevelopez372 Ohhhh trust me. I know! I've been a teacher for 19 years. NEA and AFT are giants at lobbying and vouchers, school choice, getting rid of the dept of education will NEVER happen (at least through legislation). The only way it can happen is if enough parents pull their kids out of school and homeschool or set up school co ops with other parents which a lot of parents are doing. Once enrollment decline hits them then they'll start to realize there's a problem. But even then that's not a guarantee. The teacher's unions are the worst. The ONLY reason why many teachers (conservatives included) are in the union is because of their liability insurance. You have legal representation which is absolutely necessary due to sue happy parents and crazy administrators wanting to get you fired.

I could watch these all night lol

did they get rid of the entire school board? I think MANY school boards should be forced to resign

This outrageous, when teachers don't have supplies and have to buy them out of pocket. Teachers barely earn a living wage, then this bozo is earning 400,00.

@ratherbfishing455

4 жыл бұрын

A friend spent almost $1000 a few years ago. The bulletin boards had to be changed every week. Then she spent a lot for bribes for students. She bought a lot paper for crafts for holiday gifts.

@ls-kk4pq

3 жыл бұрын

My suggestion is don't do "work to rule" for teachers. No. Instead do "buy to rule." EVERYTHING a teacher has bought for the class is taken out. It would look like the class had been robbed if we did that.

@trwent

Жыл бұрын

$400,000.

@jackfanning7952

Жыл бұрын

Teachers barely earn a living wage??? Tell that to an over-the-road truck driver, a steel worker, a construction supervisor, a farmer, an architect, or a landscaper

I think he deserves minimum wage.

Somebody think about the children, please!

@22trem

3 жыл бұрын

BAHAHAHAHA

He looked embarrassed. Public shaming of corrupt public officials is what it takes.

Ms Henry ("Do you job" lady) was my 7th-8th grade band teacher

Contract negotiations are exempt from the open meetings act. They typically take place in a closed session. As usual, the public doesn't have a clue

@JeffSmith-eq3kc

2 жыл бұрын

They know the result was a $400,000 salary which is all they need to know to be pissed.

$400,000?? i thought our supt. salary of $245,000 was outrageous. On the other hand, don't you love "0% raises for teachers?"

People need not fear big politicians, we need to fear small politicians.

Scrap the school board!

I don't blame them. I would be pissed off too.

They probably even wouldn't even miss him if they got rid of him

Taught for 30+ years. In that time I rarely dealt with competent administrators. Most were 'all ego' and had an agenda not focused on doing what was best for students. They were ALL overpaid compared to frontline teachers, rarely focused on improving education, & became administrators because they were crappy in the classroom. They protected their friends and harrassed those who weren't bootlickers. "Follow through" was non existent. People blame teacher unions for the inability to fire poor teachers. That is BS. It is totally due to lazy administrators. I loved my time in the classroom, but in NO WAY I would get into education today were I a young person. The board should all be replaced in this instance. The taxpayers should not let this go unanswered.

Im 22 and about to run for bored member in my district. I look forward to it and will do all i can do stop the currupt mess

@pennyreagan7645

3 жыл бұрын

Get out in public meet the people in the community let them get to know you. Go to meetings encourage parents, teachers and the community to go to meetings it can only get better if you want quality people to help improve their community. Also do this if your town council members are only looking out for themselves, families and friends. Good luck

@22trem

3 жыл бұрын

You aren't qualified since you can't even spell "board" correctly. They'll laugh you right out of the building....

@Dana9437

2 жыл бұрын

@@22trem I think he was being satirical.

I BET THEY NEED SCHOOL BOOKS..KNOWLEDGE IS POWER

@22trem

3 жыл бұрын

Kids today don't read books. They Tik Tok and smoke weeeeed.

@lettheworldburn2998

2 жыл бұрын

Power is power

They should also find out what his pension will be after he takes early retirement.

@luisgomez392

3 жыл бұрын

I work for a school district. can’t believe the hidden hand that always plays a part in Who they hired or who they promote. They always want friends and people that will hold their secrets for them. The pensions they receive are incredible and sometimes they go out their way to triple dip. And that’s coming from the person sitting in HR. He has a pensions from the teacher, has a pension from the CMA department, and has a pension from the administration department. If I can count correctly that’s three pensions from the same district.

We have a similar issue here in Illinois..Sup makes 400k...where median household income in the community is 65k

@thepubliusproject

3 жыл бұрын

Does the median worker oversee the safety, well being and education of over 25,000 students every day? Or manage their parents? Or about 100 staff at each of 20+ different facilities?

@anthonyellerbrock932

3 жыл бұрын

No but then again, the median worker doesn't get 80% of their annual salary (which for this guy would be 320k per year) in retirement funding for 25 years either.

@thepubliusproject

3 жыл бұрын

@@anthonyellerbrock932 where are you getting that number as his retirement salary?

@jimp9151

3 жыл бұрын

@@thepubliusproject Cry me a river. The president of the United States makes less. Go away. besides, he doesn't do all that. He delegates to underlings (at more taxpayer cost) to do those things. GTFOH.

@thepubliusproject

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimp9151 whether or not the President's salary is correctly set is a different topic, but nice try to distract. The reality is that for the position he has, he is underpaid. Your insults, immature attempts to change the topic, and petty comments aren't compelling. They're just a child's way of saying I'm right, and that you have no good counter to the point I made. I accept your concession.

The public are the ones who should decide on what the salaries should be , for public employees.

Public is doing a great job on starting to look into these public employees actions, keep up the great job lovely americans !!

The superintendent looks intelligent with the glasses 😦

@hieronyous

2 жыл бұрын

HUH! REALLY???

When are people going to realize kids dont come first its all about money superintendents make way to much money for little work that they do

@jimmyhaley727

5 жыл бұрын

and the BALL teachers,,,,,

@421bb4

2 жыл бұрын

plus they all power tripping psychopaths

That is crazy pay. No wonder schools have no money for supplies

Who the one that gave the okay to give him more money????

Wow must be nice to give yourself a raise.

Holy shit.....400k? For what....so he can buy new suits and act important.

School board should be voluntary members and not paid for the job.

Archive the whole lot of them into the summit

break that down thats almost 34000 a month 8500 a week 1700 a day a day absolutely deplorable the entire council should be removed and replaced with people that live in the real world

God I love these school board meeting videos

The president of the United States makes $400,000 annually and they want to give that to a school board president?!?!

Public schools WOW that's a lot money wasted .....

HAND OVER THE MONEY!

There is NO SCHOOL SUPERVISOR WORTH $ 400,000.00. NO WHERE! NO HOW!

@thepubliusproject

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. They're worth at least ten times that amount. He ran a school system of more than 20 schools, each one with near or more than 100 teachers and faculty. Each school has tens of millions of dollars in assets, and is responsible for every adult, parent and student that comes through its doors. Compare that salary to your typical office CEO who probably makes more than 10 times that amount for fewer than 10% of the resources and something close to 1% of the responsibility of a school superintendent.

How are the students grade point averages in his school?

That’s crazy

No Superintendent should make more than the President of the USA!

Parents better wake up take your children out of these schools because obviously they don't give a s*** about them

If he's getting $400k how much are the rest of them getting? There should always be complete transparency.

@thepubliusproject

3 жыл бұрын

Salaries are open records. There's transparency there. Not understanding something is different from someone not letting others see it.

@robertballuumm730

3 жыл бұрын

@@thepubliusproject It still doesn't answer the question. If he's getting $400k how much are the others getting? His salary is the same as the president of the US without the same responsibility. I don't think salaries are open records if increases can be made without consulting others first. Who proposed his increase and who approved it?

@thepubliusproject

3 жыл бұрын

@@robertballuumm730 I have no idea what the other salaries are. Check the school's budget documents which should be listed on their website. Salaries are indeed open records for public officials.

I like all the comments from pandemic times as if this video was from now instead of 2016🤣 Even with that said 2016 and 400k is bullshit for a school superintendents salary

400thousand dollars r they nuts

What in the world has he done for the district to make that kind of money??

When football college coaches make 2 million dollars a year, then yep, salaries are out of control

@ec1628

Жыл бұрын

At least those guys generate income. These guys do not do squat.

400 grand is ridiculous

The power is with We the People.

$400,000 in Missouri! WTH!

Good news and bad news. I googled this story and the superintendent decided to step down after this. Bad news is he agreed to a settlement of $450k to do so.

School board meetings are quickly becoming more juicy to watch than crime podcasts.

$400,000 a year!?!?!? What in the world?

dont need all of the local news commentary. Where is the link to the actual meeting?

I was superintendent and responsible, for payroll, safety, lodging, training ,placement hiring and layoffs or terminations. Many superintendents I know we're very happy at $250,000 per year,and then I look at this gang of tugs in front of you, all I can say is that council is very very lucky ,I'm not at the podium because their hair would stand straight back from my yelling at them,

As citizens we need to be United in our values in our Faith, our common sense, and our kindness. Then we will see those values in our Government

@QWERTYTRMC

2 жыл бұрын

yup facts

Wow a big pay raise for the Superintendant meanwhile Teachers teach kids absolutely nothing ( That is unless the kids are in advanced placement i.e. kids get preferential treatment) and the kids suffer. Public schools just don't give a damn about kids. They never have.

School board members should not make that much money

RESIGN.PERIOD KIDS DESERVE MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH BETTER.....

but what about transparency?

Oh man I wonder what happened in this situation.

I lived here for a while !!!

Believe it or not school boards will listen, they all have public comment sections of their meetings and after an hour of people speaking out every meeting and specifically target the board members up for reelection you can effect change, board members like the power and prestige but if they can't get reelected it all goes away.

Superintendents should get paid the same as the highest paid teacher. Then they would be able to ask for a raise. This is disgusting.

This guy's name sounds like a Michael Jackson verse.

You can tell by looking at him that you just give a s*** what everybody else thinks

I want the whole video, give me the whole video. This is like my lays.

Does anyone else notice a pattern here?

That's criminal. Get them all into prison.

My god, no wonder they want to keep their jobs on the school board. This is insane, defund the school boards.

@andrewdaley3081

2 жыл бұрын

They get paid very very well. 🇬🇧👍

As of 2021 our supt.'s pay went to $303,000

Mister, your fired.

400,000? Increase the teachers pay with that money!

If he took home a clean 100k instead (after taxes) he could fund needed salary increases for about a dozen teachers, maybe more. He could increase the base pay of his teachers across the board, making the district one of the most competitive in the country. He could fund powerful and long lasting district wide initiatives. But no, I guess he needs to buy like 3 more cars or something. I would argue that no SP should make more than $150k, and that amount would be for large districts. That money should really go back into the system as reinvestments into the schools’ missions. Judging from the building the meeting was held in, the school district is quite wealthy, or at least well off. The kids likely have most of what they need. Why not just increase teacher salaries or support staff salaries? Why not save the money for rainy days?

Every School board Across America sits in Ivory Towers.

@thepubliusproject

3 жыл бұрын

That has to be one of the most ignorant and ridiculous things posted in this video feed, Look over the comments for a minute and see how low that valley is.

@jasonelizondo8879

3 жыл бұрын

@@thepubliusproject You are ignorant for not seeing the truth. Look into working for different counties and see how high they sit.

@thepubliusproject

3 жыл бұрын

@@jasonelizondo8879 you seem to think you know a lot about me. You also seem to think that tossing out childish insults somehow means you've made a compelling argument. Really what you've made is a concession. I accept.

Isn’t Cole Younger buried in Lee’s Summit - only reason I have heard if the place.

Hes thinking man I shoulda just been happy with 350 and kept my mouth shut.

400 thousand dollars?????? For what???????

LOL, WHAT IS HIS NAME

These horrible people aren't bothered about what you think they are only bothered about money not what they should be doing for the school and the pupils

I say have the whole board up for audits

I keep seeing a bunch of comments on here referring to "frontline teachers". Are there backline teachers?

GO PARENTS !!!!! FIGHT BACK!!!!!!

WHAT!! OMG! Thats unreal. He makes more than any gov't official even the feds!

Wow who does he know to get that graft.

In my suggested: he resigned.

WE PREPARE ARE STUDENTS FOR LIFE, REALLY???

This is trickle down economics! This is happening every where. 400 times the salary of a teacher is the same in the business community.

Crooks

Over a thousand dollars a day every day of the year nice for some. 🇬🇧👍

$400,000, isn't that the presidential salary? Don't let the 'super' in your title get to your head, mate.

Corrupt. Enough said.

400k ???? W***?? all students from that district graduate astronautes or what!!!

@thepubliusproject

3 жыл бұрын

I'm a teacher too. So let's use our critical thinking here. He ran a school system of more than 20 schools, each one with near or more than 100 teachers and faculty. Each school has tens of millions of dollars in assets, and is responsible for every adult, parent and student that comes through its doors. Compare that salary to your typical office CEO who probably makes more than 10 times that amount for fewer than 10% of the resources and something close to 1% of the responsibility of a school superintendent.

They forget who works for who

It’s not about the kids It’s about those who are paying the bills (taxpayers) asking educators to work with them in educating the child the way the local community is demanding

I think we are all getting hit by something. It is interesting to share our stories and try to find a common ground about what is bringing all this on...It just seems nonstop...I was told by the Oakland Unified School District I would get paid for working with my younger Son because I had not been placed in a classroom as a State Union Worker because many of the Oakland School's were closing and was under construction. It's as if none of these incidents took place. I have not been paid for anything not even unemployment benefits. They just kept letting my cases and proof go past statue. I have never seen such envy and bias. It is far past wrong and upsetting. It is very illegal and ANNOYING. It was definitely an abuse of power situation going on. I want answers to where is my money? Why do the Renee C. Davidson Court get to play these kinds of mind games? Play with my younger Son and I. We did not need any help..I appeared at every Court Hearing for the School Complaint. My home Complaint. The Santa Rita Complaint where parties did not respond. I asked for my request for the default of judgment advised by my paid Attorney. It was as if someone was telling my Attorneys not to do anything but make me feel like I lost my cases. I do not appreciate these People ignorance and prejudices...

Sounds like District 34 in Antioch Illinois.