Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Schools / Superintendent retiring ...

Great, now we can spend another million to do a search for a new king. We can pay that person 1/2 million dollars a year then also with all the bells, whistles, new cars and such we give them all.

BANDITS.

It's for the children though......

Never mind the taxpayers.

Fantastic. Now the next fund-rasier, waste of space activist can take the post.

It doesn't matter who they select, the school board will continue to screw things up. Their academic policy statement should be renamed "remediation in search of job expansion".

This gentlemen was an obvious failure as all the previous admins were. A corporate head would be skewered for not having a succession plan in place with the next replacement being groomed under him/her and ready to step in. This is precisely why school administrators should not be compensated like private/public company execs. They are nothing more than glorified baby sitters.

OK people it time to play the "Find a New Superintendent" game. Here are the rules:

Initiate a "Nationwide" seach = 2 points

Hire a Female = 2 points

Hire a Female with a hyphenated last name = 5 points

Hire a male =-2 points

Hire a white male =-10 points

Hire a person who will work to provide a "sustainable educcation" = 2 points

Hire a person who will offer a new referendum Every Year = 2 points

Hire someone who will hold the admin and staff accountable, put students first and act as a steward of the taxpayers money = automatic loss/must start over, do not pass go, do not collect $200

WOW you can tell how much you people hate education - District 196 has high test scores and a proud tradition. He is a nice man that is ready to move on, how about thanking him for his service to the community?

I bet the new hire gets paid more than the outgoing "super". You just have to pay these salaries to get someone "good." Doesn't make a difference. They just play musical chairs hopping from district to district. Superintendents are the last place to invest money. Higher a B school grad for $75,000 and you would be money ahead. You might even get them cheaper in these economic times. If they choose to go with someone already in the superintendent fraternity, then start with a lowball offer under six figures. Times are tough.

The last "sup" got a mega retirement deal and moved to Georgia. I wonder what it is going to cost the tax payers this time. District 196 has high test scores? Compared to Japan and other counties, they are average at best. Comparing 196 scores to the rest of the U.S. public education system is nothing to brag about.

MN Teacher wrote:

WOW you can tell how much you people hate education - District 196 has high test scores and a proud tradition. He is a nice man that is ready to move on, how about thanking him for his service to the community?

High test scores on non-static tests mean little. If the tests (MCA'a, Iowa Basics) were not re-normalized to reflect improvement that isn't happening, they'd look like they ran off a cliff. I know, I've studied the issue. Whether John Currie is a nice man is immaterial, so were his predecessors. However, 196 rejected proven teaching materials while 43% of the grad class required remediation in math, science and English language abilities. In fact, the Dir of Curriculum Development never even cracked the NEW textbooks private educators were having amazing success with as 'they didn't fit with the District's plans'. All of MN's government schools are running out of excuses and the public are starting to figure it out. Privatization is what's needed to drive competition as the public system refuses to do the job.