Tag: administrative bloat

THIS Is Why Throwing More Money At Schools Is A Waste…

I’ve pounded the table about this many times. The taxpayers get soaked hard for the schools yet the teachers are always crying poor – which spurs morons like James Talarico and Clayton Tucker to demand MORE billions be thrown at the schools.

Where does it all go? Administrative bloat:

At Harvard, there are 2,600 more administrators than undergrads

Harvard University employs about 1,352 full-time administrators for every 1,000 undergraduate students enrolled at the university, an analysis conducted by The College Fix found.

This is more than a nine percent increase from the 2013-14 school year, when there were 1,240 administrators per 1,000 students, according to the analysis, which used data provided by Harvard to the federal Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System.

During the 2021-22 school year, the most recent year for which data are available, Harvard had 10,120 full-time administrators and support staff on its payroll; in contrast, it had 3,899 full-time teaching and instructional staffers. The total number of undergrads that year was 7,483.

Yes, you read that right: there are MORE administrators than there are students! If Harvard is that ass-backwards, what do you think is going on everywhere else? The same thing, I guarantee you.

Hell, the top three guys in the Lampasas ISD pull down over $420,000 between them (plus bennies!!) and they teach ZERO kids.

Frankly, I’d look at the salaries of seat polishers like “Doctor” Chane Rascoe and slash his ridiculous $177,000 salary down to about $60k. If he doesn’t like it, he can go work at Wal-Mart.

Seems like he’s doing pretty well though. He took his big pile of money and went alllll the way to Killeen to spend it on a nice new vehicle! I’m guessing when you are as wildly overpaid as he is, you just pay cash for your vehicle and avoid the sky-high interest rates we are currently seeing.

Weird. I’m pretty sure we have some car dealerships right here in Lampasas. Those dealerships are CONSTANTLY sponsoring Lampasas ISD school events, from what I’ve seen over the last 12 years.

You’d think a guy who pulls $177,000 out of the hides of Lampasas taxpayers every year for polishing a seat might wanna buy his cars locally – maybe keep the $4,000 or $5,000 of sales tax right here at home. Maybe support the dealerships that constantly support the Badgers.

Seems like a dick move, if you ask me.

You’d NEVER see Joey McQueen pull this shit.

Kevin Bott Salary About to Skyrocket as He Leaves For Santa Fe School District

Apparently our LISD assistant superintendent is about to leave for greener pastures. There was some debate on Facebook as to whether the LISD should promote from within or look outside. Some wag commented “hell, I’ll do it, what’s it pay?”

Well, here is your answer. The paper pushers at the top of the LISD are paid VERY well. Head honcho LISD superintendent Chane Rascoe is paid $170,000 per year PLUS bennies! That is more than the governor of Texas, by the way.

Bott rakes in the dough too. Here is a list of his salary over the years:

2015: Principal $76,906

2016: Principal $79,325

2017: Principal $82,056

2018: Asst Superintendent $97,990

2019: Asst Superintendent $101,450

2020: Data is not available yet, but thanks to Chane Rascoe’s recommendations, all paper pushers (administrators) were given a 5% raise on March 3rd, 2020 [front page news] – incidentally just WEEKS before Covid hit and allowed them all to take the rest of the year off. That raise would put Bott at $106,522.

That’s a pretty damn good chunk of change for (1) a nine-month work year (2) a job with LOTS of bennies (3) a job where you don’t actually have to educate any kids (4) being an ASSISTANT and (5) a small town where a lot of people bust their ass 12 months a year and make less than half of that.

Anyways, Santa Fe ISD is even more profligate with their spending, luckily for Bott.

The retiring super – Elizabeth Leigh Wall – is shown making $220,308 back in 2019 – and I have zero doubt that number has been bumped up higher since then. Plus Bott will only have to oversee four schools instead of the current five.

The Santa Fe ISD had FIFTY PEOPLE apply for that job. That’s not what happens when you aren’t paying enough. That’s what happens when the position is WILDLY overpaid. This is a truism that escapes idiot bureaucrats like Finley deGraffenreid and “Doctor” Chane Rascoe year after year as they blather about “staying competitive”.

Are these desk jockeys worth these exorbitant sums? We’ll get into that soon, but here is a little teaser info for a few of our schools. Notice the school rankings start to shit the bed (red line) right around 2016….when “Doctor” Rascoe took over.

Link to high school ranking HERE

Link to middle school ranking HERE

Link to Taylor Creek ranking HERE

Link to Hanna Springs ranking HERE

Link to Kline Whitis ranking HERE

Also of note, the year 2017 is when the schools decided to start spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy every kid a laptop. They spent $361,000 in 2017, $300,000 in 2018 and $348,000 last month.

Over ONE MILLION DOLLARS on laptops in four years. Let me repeat that: the Lampasas School district spent ONE MILLION DOLLARS on laptops since 2017.

As you can see, that had zero impact on school performance.