What Happened To The Monkey And The Dart Board?

I keep being told that our public education system is being run by professionals.

Broad-brush-attack people like me just don't seem to understand how "they" take themselves seriously.

Maybe this is a joke:


AFT Online Survey: "2009-2010 Instructional Compensation Survey"

AFT Online Survey: "2009-2010 SRP Compensation Survey"


This is at the bottom of these two surveys:

American Federation of Teachers, 555 New Jersey Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20001, Phone: 202.879.4400
© American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO. All rights reserved. AFT LeaderNet Terms of Use

Maybe this is a joke.

Except it is found here:

Welcome to the United School Employees of Pasco

We represent all the teachers and school related personnel in the Pasco County Public School System.

We currently serve over 4300 teacher and SRP members and look forward to serving you!

USEP is the professional organization whose only interest is its members.

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The USEP bargaining teams are asking Teachers and SRP to take a BRIEF compensation survey.


Up until this week, the District and USEP teams have been reviewing financial data and insurance renewal rates. Therefore, the economic negotiations are just beginning. Nothing has been settled yet. That’s why your input is needed. The teams will review the survey results to assist them in determining their bargaining positions.



Click here to start the Teacher survey Click here to start the SRP survey

Can anyone help me with this? I know there are a few insiders who see the truth. Help me out.

In the mean time, this is no joke:

Florida & Tampa Bay schools blog - The Gradebook

If you want to read some of the history to understand how the system works, do a search for Beverly Gallagher, or you can simply read this:

Broward/Palm Beach News - A Politician Weeps - page 2:

"To help calm her down, I told her it would be all right. I told her that Broward State Attorney Michael Satz doesn't prosecute corruption cases, that the worst that would happen was that his office would start an investigation and sit on it for two years before quietly deciding not to file any charges.
This is all true, and I've reported on this pattern numerous times. Satz is sitting on several such cases right now. In fact, his office famously investigated the construction department at the Broward County School Board during the mid-1990s. The grand jury probe cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and came up with reams of evidence of corruption — but Satz failed to prosecute any elected officials or high-ranking school board staffers."

Don't forget to follow the timeline of the reports, just to keep every thing in perspective.

Gotta' trust!