Have Dinner on Us!

It is our view that 42 candidates for a single position in New Ricmond School District is a lot of work to get through. It takes a lot of time to find just the right Middle School Pricipal to do that job. It also costs quite a bit to fill that position. When you factor in the salary, health insurance, sick leave, accumulated sick pay, travel expenses, pension, buy outs and all the rest, it really adds up against the taxpayers.

But our view is about the dinners! Why do we mention the dinners? It is because they have become such an important tool in the school system. Take for instance the Facilities Task Force in Hudson. It was a hand-picked group who met once a week and ate dinner together to the tune of thousands of dollars. Then you had the most recent “special planning session” for the Hudson School Board in July. What did they have that night? Dinner! Then you look at a calendar of the next eight Hudson School Board meetings. What are they having at four of them? You guessed it: Dinner!

But our view is focused on the really important dinners in the districts. They can make or break a potential candidate. We welcome in our new administrators with a lush, fanciful dinner! The Country Club! But the most important dinners can really simplify a board’s responsibility. New Richmond has to weed out 42 candidates until they get through to the last three. Our view is to take them to a nice fanciful dinner. The process goes much quicker. Take for instance here in Hudson. It was a lush dinner that gave us our current superintendent. That’s why she is “second choice”! The other candidate withdrew after the lush dinner. Our view is that by taking all 42 to dinner, New Richmond could have a middle school principal called “forty-second choice”

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