BEING WOKE IS NOT NECESSARILY BEING COMPETENT

by Bob Walsh

The San Francisco Unified School District is currently preparing a budget with MASSIVE cuts in order to maybe keep the district from being taken over by the state.  The board is really good at deciding which school names to dump because the named person was insufficiently supportive of LGBTQ rights, or didn't have the decency to get killed fighting for the North in the Unpleasantness Between The States, or had the original sin of being an old White European.  That being said, they can't actually run a school district worth a shit.

The board, by a vote of 6-1, decided to fight like hell to preserve their jobs on Tuesday of this week.  They are facing a $125 million shortfall and, despite whining from the teachers unions, have been told that the state WILL take the district over if they do not make massive cuts which must, of necessity, include classroom cuts.  The district's overall yearly budget is about $1.1 billion.

So far they are planning to cover the shortfall with $50 million cut from the schools and $40 million from support services.  They hope to get the other $35 million by squeezing blood out of stones and renting schools out to shoot porn movies on the weekends.   The state has already appointed a fiscal expert to make preparations for taking over the district.  

The district has lost over 1,000 students per year for the last 7 years.  Schools get most of their shekels from ADA (average daily attendance) money.  Fewer rugrats means less dinero.  

The sole NO vote, Board President Gabriela Lopez, blamed the board's staff for the problems and expressed anger at the board being forced into this position.  (The board staff spent much of the last year working with the renaming committee, to rename 44 schools whose names may conceivably piss somebody off.  The board then backed away from the changes after being criticized for expending all of their effort and money on petty bullshit.)  The state has pointed out that the board has spent the last year essentially having a circle jerk rather than taking care of business.  The plan may be finalized as early as February and may cut the crap out of the central office.  A bunch of hangers-on, petty sycophants, nieces and nephews and in-laws could end up losing their cushy jobs.  Damn, what a shame that would be.