A Failing School Administration

At the last Allentown school board meeting, Leslie Franklin, head of the teacher's union, gave a scathing report of conditions in the system.

“We hear the educational jargon being used, promises being made and the glamor being touted, yet for the last few years, we have lost so many of our faculty members in our district buildings due to a disconnect in expectations,”

She went to say that the staff lacks basics, like pencils and toilet paper. Reports indicate that the school superintendent, Carol Birks, was let go from her former district for  similar complaints. However, Miss Birks looks like the school board, even if she less resembles the students themselves. Looking like the district, meaning being a minority was paramount to this board. Ms. Birk's contract was bought out by her previous employer, New Haven School District, although some on that board though she should have been simply fired. Complaints included unnecessary outside consultants, not unlike the diversity analysis she had recently commissioned for the Allentown School District. If all that isn't enough, our school board started her salary off at $250,000 a year plus increases.