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Oopsies: School superintendent now says she should have disciplined wife-punching headmaster

School Superintendent Carol Johnson appeared on WBUR this morning to discuss the Rodney Peterson case, several days after the Globe reported she'd promised Peterson she'd take no action as long as the case stayed out of the media.

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I like the Globe's editorial on this issue: Learn from your mistake:

Boston Schools chief erred in failing to suspend tainted headmaster:
http://b.globe.com/LE24Kj

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Parents, students, and taxpayers can only hope that Johnson’s genuine reflection leads to demonstrably better decision-making in the future.

In another city, I assume.

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no do overs. sorry. coulda woulda shoulda....forget it. Its a mindset. Cover ups=lies. Yes reflect while on unemployment like others who have erred. No confidence. Headmasters cover for her and she covers for them. Time to clean house.

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Jeez. What else don't we know about?

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The utility of garlic scapes!

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when he said, approximately, "If I had to choose between government without newspapers, or newspapers without government, I would choose the latter."

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Thomas Jefferson never saw the Metro!

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The O'Bryant School is an exam school like Boston Latin and Latin Academy, though obviously without the cachet. If this is how the City of Boston treats its best students, you have to wonder how the superindendent treats incidents at places like West Roxbury High and Jeremiah Burke.

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BPS is a jobs & benefit program first (more paper pushers in offices than actual educators in classrooms) and a education system second.

Remember that next time the school administration tries to proclaim "it's for the children!".

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Everything that isn't corporate is a "jobs and benefit program" to you people

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Then can you explain how a few years ago the mayor added like 100 more custodians to the school system year over year when the money was "available" and when the economy hit the skids we paid millions to lay them off - and now the money saved goes to fund raises and rising benefit costs for the remaining employees.

We've spent the past 4 years cutting the fat off the city employment rolls - there are still probably a few corners that need trimming - but unfortunately we've probably shed a little muscle along the way as well (the parks department budget has barely budged in 10 years for example which is why everything is now a "public/private partnership" and they want to sell off the Boston Common in pieces to the highest bidders).

One other year they had some extra money so they basically came up with a new job for about 25-50 people to be "community liaisons". I think those are all or mostly gone now too. They make these jobs as placeholders when they can no longer justify bigger raises in flush times and that's how they afford continued raises in lean times - lay off the placeholders and use the savings for the remaining employees.

It's why the budget has gone up far greater than the rate of inflation while we've laid off 1000 people (about 6% of the workforce)- then they blame the whole thing on health insurance which is a drop in the bucket - but people believe it because it's in the headlines.

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I have no issue with public sector jobs as long as they are adding value to something beyond buying a politician a vote or a favor. Larding up the payroll with do nothing administrators while good teachers can't get MERIT pay raises and crumbling schools have no surplus money for renovations MAKES NO SENSE! Cronyism is bankrupting the country and depriving citizens of services that they have already handsomely paid for.

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The SEIU (if you believe 1/10000000 th of what you hear) are about as brutal as that purring kitty cat in JP compared to the NEA.

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