Wasting More Money
- Chicago Public Schools has ordered a principal who threw out dumpsters-full of unused school supplies to retrieve the boxes of tape, glue, test-prep books and reading books out of the garbage bins and bring them back into the building.
District officials, who are facing a $612 million deficit, said they learned of the discarded school supplies at Northwest Middle School in the Belmont-Cragin neighborhood on Thursday. They plan to pick up the supplies, determine what can still be used and then distribute some of the items to other schools in need.
“School supplies should never thrown away unless they are completely unusable or unsuitable for the classroom, and this certainly was not the case in this situation,” said CPS spokeswoman Becky Carroll. Carroll said the value of the items had not been calculated.
We remember writing five or six years ago about entire store rooms in certain Chicago schools that were just packed with unused stuff - pallets of textbooks, boxes of unused computers, enough supplies to open an OfficeMax branch. It seems not much has changed in the intervening years.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
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Remember that crazy fuck phil jackson now head of the "black star project?" He ran public schools for what 2 months and exposed all the new computers,cars,bicycles,and millions of dollars worth of shit ordered and contractors paid for cpd? He was gone after he let reporters know. Wonder if that principal was ordered to dump all the shit so someones friends could get a nice juicy city contract with the envelope stuffed full of cash?
What school?
Spend the budget or lose it, even if you throw it away
There is a method to the madness at CPS. If you over order supplys and store the excess somewhere then you can order more from "connected" suppliers that have contracts with the city. This has gone on for years. Throwing good stuff away is nothing new in this town. Why not just give the stuff to the kids to take home and use. What a waste!
That's where my tax dollars go. In the garbage so they can spend their budget and lobby for a bigger one.
It's time to do away with public education. Let parents pay for their kids to go to school. I'm paying for mine to attend private AND for these public schools to waste the money I pay them in taxes so that I can't use the schools that they mismanage and let get out of control.
I'm calling bullshit.
During the news broadcast when asked about the tape being thrown out, she explained that they did not have the right dispensers for it and the dispensers would cost $75 each.
I wonder who has the contract for that.
Stay safe
Somehow this must be the fault of Obama and the liberals.
Could send all those unused supplies to Joplin MO. WTF is wrong with people?
lets talk waste at the water dept .we have three portable concrete mixers along with a cement storage silo.this very expensive equipment has never been used.it has been hidden at various water dept.yards for the last 5 years.they will try to scrap this one day .they will sell it for peanuts to one of their pals. who will make a fortune on this equipment. fox 32 will get to the bottom of this .
I don't want to hear some teachers saying they have to pay for school supplies because the school doesn't supply the students.
I remember working in the projects all those Honor Students at the end of the school year would take all their pristine never used textbooks pile them into a city litter basket and set them ablaze.
Just warm the cockles of my heart just thinking about it. What need do you have of the textbook when the teachers give you the answers to the standardized tests. No need to earn anything ever as everything will be provided for you by the never ending credit charged to the working taxpayer.
Keep Voting Democrat and Help Obama, Quinn and Rahm Welcome >>>The New Americans.
At a recent PTO meeting at one of the city's gifted schools, parents offered to buy new computers to replace outdated ones, the principal refused, saying that the computers had to be purchased through official channels, with "special software." A desktop computer costs about $500 these days...the official CPS computer was $2000. Ridiculous.
The principal from Northwest, Marilyn Strojny, was an example of why kids in CPS do not stand a chance. Here is the principal, answering questions on why she threw things out saying, "so we knew what we had", and answers so inane and stupid that one wonders how she became a principal; then you think, she is an example of a principal in a system that sucks so bad, nobody with any resources who cares about their kids, sends them there to begin with.
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That's where my tax dollars go. In the garbage so they can spend their budget and lobby for a bigger one.
It's time to do away with public education. Let parents pay for their kids to go to school. I'm paying for mine to attend private AND for these public schools to waste the money I pay them in taxes so that I can't use the schools that they mismanage and let get out of control.
I'm calling bullshit.
7/23/2011 05:51:00 AM
Agreed why are we forced to pay when our children don't use that shit system? Shit even rahmbo will not send his kids to the fucked up cps what a statement that makes1
This happens a lot everywhere.
It is often more cost effective to just throw out excess carp that is all but unusable than it is to sort it out and store the little bit that might be usable.
There is only so much storage space available. Why waste it storing unusable crap.
It is the same reason people have garage sales and sell off crap 5 cents on the dollar and throw away what is left over.
Shit! I can't even get supplies to do my job on my watch, and they are throwing stuff away?
How about an entire store room and warehouse full of police supplies that are never issued to officers who need them. Tasers, ballistic helmets, ballistic shields, gas masks, and the list goes on. This is not conjecture, I have seen these items for myself. Hundreds of gas masks that are still in the boxes, that they won't issue out. Military style helmets obtained from the government that they won't issue out. Ballistic shields that they won't issue out. And that is the tip of the iceberg. What are they waiting for, Oslo or Mumbai to come to Chicago? A lot of good all that equipment will be when it is in the warehouse and we are battling with armed terrorists in the Hyatt.
...and the teachers never stop crying about how they have to buy all of this stuff out of their own pockets...
Alright, someone should be asking some serious questions here. Why? Who told you to? Where'd they come from?
BTW, did we ever solve the theft of all that copper wire from one of the 'most secure buildings' in the city?
--chirp--
That is like when J-Fled started and we found all the perfectly good exempts in the trash bin at 35th St.
And what are they doing to that principal who threw away the supplies? I suspect nothing.
I saw the report on TV news. The principal, who appeared non-plussed if that's right word, claimed their school no longer used chalkboards therefore they didn't need the chalk or erasers and that they called around to other schools to see if they could use them, and nobody wanted them because they no longer used them either. She also claimed that the rolls of scotch tape didn't fit their dispensers. But I thought I had seen the reporter picking up what appeared to be boxes of individual plastic dispenser tape. All the items trashed were in perfect condition and looked brand new even if they supposedly weren't.
It was clear someone didn't want to be bothered and the easiest thing to do was toss. And did tossing possibly cover up an administrative error in ordering of supplies?
In this economy, a huge dumpster overloaded with supplies could have been donated instead of trashed. VERY poor judgment on part of that principal. She should be reprimanded at the very least. If she found it so easy to toss perfectly good supplies, makes you wonder what else she and others have trashed in past rather than be inconvenienced with donation.
Talking about a waste of money, why is Assistant Superintendent Beatrice Cuello still on the payroll? Those positions were taken out of the budget and the First Deputy's position was added 2months ago. If First Deputy Wysinger can't do his job, then get rid of him. If he needs her to STILL be here, then he needs to be removed as First Deputy.
Rahm and Supt. Mc Carthy both stated how the budget needed to be addressed. Why don't you start there! WTF!
Your a fucking idiot
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That's where my tax dollars go. In the garbage so they can spend their budget and lobby for a bigger one.
It's time to do away with public education. Let parents pay for their kids to go to school. I'm paying for mine to attend private AND for these public schools to waste the money I pay them in taxes so that I can't use the schools that they mismanage and let get out of control.
I'm calling bullshit."
"It is often more cost effective to just throw out excess carp that is all but unusable than it is to sort it out and store the little bit that might be usable.
Then we must ask why the schools are buying all this excess and unusable "carp" that must be thrown away.
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