PRINCIPAL MERCENARIES WANTED
Chicago school administrators are searching the country for 50 new school principals this year and they will reward each of them with a $25,000 bonus if they agree to come and take over a failing school. The leaders of the Chicago schools said that they are, “looking for top of the class principals whose schools are currently reaching academic standards.”
I say, good luck with finding 50 principals willing to take over a failing Chicago school. I wonder if $25,000 is enough of an incentive to attract these wonderful principals. Most successful principals are probably happy where they are and might be very leery about taking on a failing school. I would encourage the prospective principals to ask the following questions before considering the move.
1. Do I get moving expenses in addition to the $25,000?
2. Do I have to live anywhere near the failing school ?
3. Would I have a special parking place for my car so I could be sure it would never
A KEEN SENSE FOR THE OBVIOUS
Oh no! Not another useless university study. We must convince Congress to pass the “Useless University Research Bill”. This bill would ban all university research that is deemed useless because the result is so obvious.
Now comes a study from the University of California at Berkeley, that tells us that rich people are less generous and more likely to be unethical when it comes to money than most other people.
Stop these ridiculous studies now! No more university money spent on any of this nonsense! From now on all research must involve incredibly important subjects like curing cancer or feeding the world population.
A university must also avoid studying any subject that the university itself might have the slightest bias about