Wisdom from Merle
Merle Widmer attended the visit to District 150 by by Lou Tice of the Pacific Institute and Education. He came away with this comment:
If I ever come back in another life, I hope to be a consultant especially in the public sector. That’s where the big bucks are; you get to travel, smooch with all kinds of “important” people, live in an “ivory tower,” eat high off the hog and get a lot of publicity. And afford a staff to do all the work.
With all the high paid administration; one retiring soon just bought a $450,000 house, with all the retired talent in Peoria who mostly work for nothing, why do we continually bring in highly paid consultants and “experts” charging us to tell us what we already know including thinking “outside the box” which is so old it has long been a cliche.
District #150 current Vision Statement says “We take pride in educating and graduating each student prepared and inspired to contribute to the world.”
And try as hard as they might, Caterpillar elite do not understand an archaic public school system with 7 unpaid board members and a bevy of Superintendent’s managing an $163 million budget.
