Brickbat: You Scratch My Back

New York City Mayor Eric Adams and city Schools Chancellor David Banks have each hired the other's girlfriend for six-figure-salary jobs. Adams named Banks' girlfriend, Sheena Wright, as one of his deputy mayors shortly before he was sworn in last December. Deputy mayors made $251,982 in fiscal year 2021. Banks, who reports to Adams, promoted Tracey Collins to senior adviser to the deputy chancellor of school leadership in July. She makes $221,597 a year, a 23 percent increase from what she was previously making as senior youth development director for the school system.

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[This Is The Zodiac Speaking]

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[Fist of Etiquette]

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[MJaneKelly]

Have schools always been hotbeds of soviet style corruption or did that just start when Jimmy Carter created the utterly useless Department of Education in 1979?

[Jerryskids]

The creation of the Department of Education was itself an aspect of bureaucratic take-over of the schools. It didn't start the trend, it was just another brick in the edifice.

I graduated in 1979, when I was in high school there were about 8 people who ran the school including one vice-principal who was also a teacher, a school nurse who served the whole school system, and two janitors. The single secretary was assisted by student volunteers in the office. Student volunteers also worked in the cafeteria assisting the 2 lunch ladies. Where my kids went to school, they had 5 vice-principals and a whole wing of the school was offices for all the personnel who ran the school. The purpose of schools isn't to teach kids any more, it's to provide jobs for bureaucrats.

[BigT]

Similar to colleges. The student:teacher ratio has remained pretty constant for 40 years, but the staff:student ratio has gone from 1:200 to about 1:5. This was facilitated by gov grants and loans.

After all, someone has to make $100k cleaning the lazy river or making pumpkin lattes.

[JoeJoetheIdiotCircusBoy]

Yeh...and the admins generally make substantially more money than the faculty (you know, the people actually doing the thing students/parents are paying for). If you look at the massive increase in college tuition (starting roughly in the 80s), one of the primary reasons for this is administrative bloat.

[Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf]

I noticed the same trend earlier. Entire staff in the late 1950s primary school was the principal, a secretary or two, a nurse, a counselor maybe. Probably one or two more that I never interacted with.

Primary school in the 1990s had a room full of desks and people with typewriters banging away, must have been 20 of them. No idea what they were doing, but if there'd been a free market in schools, that sight alone would have ruled them out.

[Brandybuck]

My dad taught for 40 years. His elementary school had a principal, secretary, nurse, and janitor. That was the only non-teaching staff. The local school board was housed in an old house downtown, ran four elementary schools, a junior high, and a high school. I think they had a staff of five.

[kevrob]

Catholic elementary school in the 1960s: 1 principal, 1 teacher per classroom. No Superintendent. The parish priest doubled as that. Parents volunteered to do things like monitor recess. No cafeteria. 1 janitor, who also took care of the church's auditorium/gym, which the school used for PE. Catholic high school in the 70s: 1 principal; a guidance counselor; a dean of men/coach & a dean of women/teacher (effectively V-Ps); 1 librarian w/student volunteers; 1 sister ran the school office. A Cafeteria served no food except from a few vending machines. Almost everyone got into college. Suburban location. No driver ed, no shop. 1 sister cooked for the convent. 2 of my sisters got jobs helping her.

Next town over, my Dad taught and coached in their public schools. Superintendent, principals, vice-principals. Dad was Athletic director, eventually. He coached everything but gridiron football. Besides a nurse and guidance counselors, accretions were school psychologist, reading specialists, driver ed instructors, special ed teachers. Staff at the Sup's office grew to deal with State and Federal forms. Each school had at least 1 secy.

[perlmonger]

I graduated High School in '95 and had the same thing as your kids, one VP for each grade level. Though now my sister's kids are in HS and dang they have a lot of people around.

[markm23]

My 6th grade elementary school, 1964: About 600 students K-12 and 22 teachers, including the art teacher. About 5 administrative staff: Principal, vice-principal who also taught boys' gym, 3 secretaries who really ran the school. Some other staff, some part-time: 2 janitors, lunch ladies, bus drivers.

The school also used free student labor. I sold the lunch tickets, which required walking to school (3 blocks) a little early to get set up. The crossing guards were also 6th graders from near the school.

[kcuch]

Have schools always been hotbeds of soviet style corruption

In the US only since Wilson and the Progressives implemented Dewey's version of 'citizen development' through the schools.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Bringing in Paulo Friere didn't help things either.

[Brandybuck]

We're talking New York City here. Large enough to have it own swamp that needs draining. DoE doesn't help, but the idea that it was all Carter's fault is bogus. This is the fault of Eric Adams and David Banks.

[Jerry B.]

Democrats. Feh.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

Would it be acceptable to call NYC a banana republic?

[BigT]

Racist!

[mad.casual]

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[mad.casual]

"Get Stuff Done"

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[Brandybuck]

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[Sometimes a Great Notion]

senior adviser to the deputy chancellor of school leadership

The fact they have such a job to fill is more offensive to me.

[Rich]

How about "associate executive assistant to the diversity manager for the senior adviser to the deputy chancellor of school leadership"?

It's turtles all the way down!

[creech]

And just think, one of them (or both) will someday be Vice President of the United States!

[Rossami]

Wait, that means she made over $180k as a "senior youth development director" before this latest corruption. There are a whole lot deeper problems in New York than some nepotism.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

They're the next pair of Kamala Harrises

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[Dillinger]

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[MWAocdoc]

Surprise, surprise, surprise! Who could ever have guessed that nepotism could ever occur in big cities whose governments have been deeply corrupt for at least the last hundred and fifty years. Add to that the fact that high-density urban areas would collapse into complete chaos and apocalyptic civil disorder shortly after you tried to eliminate corrupt city government and the result is my "ho-hum ... what else is new?" response.

[SRG]

Nepotism by proxy

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[Libertariantranslator]

NOW is it clear how both Kleptocracy factions can afford to bombard the proletariat with 2 Minutes Hate ads and fork over registration fees and contributions to get their confederates on the ballot?

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