A Montclair educrat scams the system, "School choice for me, but not for thee"

It's not exactly a secret that the education establishment loathes the idea of school choice. Kids are locked into their local public school via an accident of geography, and there's no escape. Unless you're one of the elite.

She had "permission?" Even though Montclair refuses to participate in the state's pilot school choice program? How's that work?

According to Morra, Alvarez knew her family lives in Little Falls, right over the border from Montclair. In direct denial to this statement, Montclair school district attorney Derlys Gutierrez said he had spoken to Alvarez and was told that he had never given the go-ahead to Morra to send her kids to the Montclair schools.

Except there's no paperwork to back up her claims. And like I said, Montclair vigorously opposes any sort of school choice. Which is why they conduct these audits in the first place.

So, what's the punishment for running your own little double-secret school choice program? Demotion.

Interim Montclair superintendent Dr. Clarence Hoover said Morra should be demoted.

They can't fire her, she's in the union!

Now I happen to believe in school choice. Send your kids to the best schools, and let the tax dollars and state aid follow the child. But then crappy schools wouldn't have any students and who's gonna pay for all those tenured teachers and administrators?

Nonwithstanding the new tenure reform legislation Chris Christie just signed the sacred cow of "last in, first out" remains untouchable. Mrs. Slackowitz might be phoning it in after 40 years on the job but by golly she's got seniority and you couldn't push her out that door even with an Act Of God. Meanwhile Mr. Eager-Beaver, beloved of every student and champion of innovative teaching methods was just hired last year so he's got less job security than an NFL coach coming off an 0-16 season.

The union likes it that way. Because they care about the children.

Anyway, back to Ms. Morra. Do you think she'll have to reimburse Montclair for the $16,120 annual cost of her children's education? There's no word yet, probably because the district has to go up against the union on that point too. If they want to.

According to Montclair Patch, they haven't bothered to pursue that remedy in the past.

Perhaps they'll decide to hold one of the people tasked with enforcing their rules to a higher ethical standard.

Posted at 11:23 by Chris Wysocki   [/education]   Comments | Perm Link |
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