will county watcher

Spending more than $5 million to refurbish the former Herald-News building was a cost that in no way improves the teachers or students of the district. I am sure the administrator of this district would disagree. Office space that existed in the building could have afforded an adequate area to make administrative decisions and hold board meetings. The other thing that makes no sense is these offices are not located near any high school in the district. This locations makes logistics a time-consuming effort for administrators and staff to visit district high schools. The addition of a day care center for staff and children in the area is a splendid perk for administrators and should be offered to district teachers as well. In the business world, plush offices indicate how well the business is doing. In the academic world, student accomplishments are the only indication of how well administrators and teachers are doing. A very smart administrator once told me that the further away the office is from the problem, the problem will always seem smaller.

What I find to be extremely wierd is that now this puts the administration farther out of reach of the tax payers and further alienates the parents.