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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Boomer with Attitude / News Has Peter Gorman lost his mind?
Posted By John Grooms on Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:36 AM
What in God's name is Schools Superintendent Peter Gorman thinking when he proposes cutting nearly 500 teachers, including some career teachers in middle and high schools, as well as 83 assistant principals, as a way of dealing with CMS' current money shortage? There's a good chance, as was pointed out by School Board Chair Molly Griffin, that more money will be forthcoming from both the state and the federal stimulus package, making preparations for such deep cuts seem, at the very least, kind of panicky. Gorman has managed the politics of his job relatively well, especially for someone producing such mediocre results. But he's tone-deaf this time. If you have, or have had, one or more kids in CMS, then you know that the following statement is gospel truth: Teachers and principals are the very foundation, the backbone, the heart, the whateveryouwannacallit, of education. Not the school administrators downtown, and, come to think of it, certainly not the superintendent. You have to wonder whether Gorman realizes this, and if he doesn't, what's he doing here? I can't imagine that CMS parents are going to react well to this bit of lunacy. I also can't imagine that no one in CMS would be able to come up with alternate ideas regarding staffing, funding, and most of all, cutting positions in the downtown administration.
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