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Beware: The Griffith Lake Forest Debacle May Already Prevail in Your School District

December 3, 2012 By 3 Comments

Some will say that Griffith’s boondoggle existence is old news and that it’s best to allow sleeping dogs to lie. However, lest history repeat itself, it is imperative that the issue of squandering tax dollars remain in the forefront, even more so if a request is made by the Lake Forest School System for increased funding through its 2013 tax levy which should be made public at December board meetings.

It appears that the root of the “Griffith Gone Wild” problem is that our school boards enabled his every action. The boards allowed at least three major gaffs to occur in Griffith’s era: his grossly excessive compensation; his botched handling of the Steinert sexting scandal, including his proven lies to the community; and the huge increases in teachers’ salaries from 2009 to 2012, in which the majority of Lake Forest High School teachers (and administrations) received percentage increases from 19% to 33.114%, helping to propel LFHS to the #2 rank in top Chicago-area High School Districts in cost to educate per student.

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  • Wolf

    This problem is prevalent in all Public Education Systems. The Public Education costs per student generally run between 300% to 600% of the Parochial or Private Education costs. And the Private and Parochial Systems consistently have better outcomes. The problem is similar to the entire Public Sector where the staffing is 50% more than required and the compensation levels are also 50% higher than comparable private sector functions. But their defined Pension Plans are the millionaire plans that are costing trillions in additional unnecessary obligations on taxpayers. In fact the 23 million Public Sector employees including the teachers and their bloated bureaucracies have put a $50 Trillion obligation on taxpayers for their pensions. If one examines the Public Sector Labor Agreements the fraud is shown. The defined pensions which are based on paying out 85% or more of the final salary are consistently inflated by over 40% in the final years prior to retirement. The massive excess in the Public Sector at the Federal, state and local levels is the primary reason that the US is bankrupt and will soon default. It is interesting that this problem is never mentioned by the Politicians who are principle beneficiaries of this massive fraud on the taxpayers.

  • Wolf

    This problem is prevalent in all Public Education Systems. The Public Education costs per student generally run between 300% to 600% of the Parochial or Private Education costs. And the Private and Parochial Systems consistently have better outcomes. The problem is similar to the entire Public Sector where the staffing is 50% more than required and the compensation levels are also 50% higher than comparable private sector functions. But their defined Pension Plans are the millionaire plans that are costing trillions in additional unnecessary obligations on taxpayers. In fact the 23 million Public Sector employees including the teachers and their bloated bureaucracies have put a $50 Trillion obligation on taxpayers for their pensions. If one examines the Public Sector Labor Agreements the fraud is shown. The defined pensions which are based on paying out 85% or more of the final salary are consistently inflated by over 40% in the final years prior to retirement. The massive excess in the Public Sector at the Federal, state and local levels is the primary reason that the US is bankrupt and will soon default. It is interesting that this problem is never mentioned by the Politicians who are principle beneficiaries of this massive fraud on the taxpayers.

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