What is going on?

I was talking today a person who knows a lot about the school system and school law. This person was of the opinion that the recent financial errors in the district are more than enough cause to ask for the resignation of our superintendent with out having to buy out his contract.

While this person is certainly savvy enough to know this information accurately I would want a lawyer's advice before thinking it was anything more than idle speculation. Not of course that I have a thing to say or do about it all. I am just sort of in a state of shock. Watching what is going on and wondering how out of whack the the world can get.

What has happened to the concept of personal responsibility? Of doing the right thing? Of keeping the best interests of the students first? How can anyone who has a clue of what they are doing misplace $1,000,000+? And then get an $18,000 raise? And then claim she has earned every penny of it?

Absolutely mind boggling. And more, apparently this is all perfectly acceptable now - Heck the local newspaper editorial even said that we should keep the superintendent just because he has now been on the job for this now being his third year. There is a lot to be said for consistency, especially when there had been none for a long time, but a million dollars is a lot money we could have used for our students, and with the very low raises teachers were given and the obscene raises given at central office...I fear we can't afford any more consistency.