How Politicians Manage Education

The politicians manage our educational system as well as they manage the budget.

Let's say you cut pay and benefits of all of your managers in your business. Then you cut all of your manager's operating budgets by over 80% in four years. Next, you told your managers they would never be allowed to fire under-performing employees, even if the employee did no work, swore at you, and harassed their fellow workers on a daily basis. Finally, you told your managers that your own pay was guaranteed to never be cut, you also get full medical benefits for your entire family, and you can travel any time you want, all on the company's budget, which you haven't balanced in years.

How many top talented managers do you think this business would recruit, let alone retain?

Welcome to Washington State education.

Keep blaming it on the teachers.