Annapolis Capital Punishment

You'll want to read Eric Hartley's latest column in which he raises a lot of issues about the ongoing funding "crisis" with our county school system. As the parent of AA students, I have been besieged by emails from PTSO and school administrators all freaking out about school funding and all urging me to go to the school board and fight for more. That's right-school administrators send out emails to parents telling us to support yet more funding. It is not the school board but the County Executive who sets the budget with approval from the County Council.

As Hartley points out, the schools get major increases each year yet continue to ask for more. And as he also points out, there are 213 school employees making six figure incomes!!!! Yikes! It's no wonder I use the term "educracy" and refer to the school system's hq at Riva Road as "the palace."

I have long contended that this large and burdensome educracy has to be reined in yet I don't see that happening. Lord knows what all those paper pushers do at Riva Road, yet how can we need 213 of them so badly that we pay them over $100k each per year? I don't get it. I don't the teachers do either. When Dr. Kevin Maxwell can explain that to me, his pleas for more money would make a lot more sense. Read Hartley's column here: www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2008/05_11-17/COL