Please Pay Immediately – $5,338,221.90
| Description | Total | |
| To: Superintendent Carole Smith | ||
| Project Title: Education Consultants (policy advising, education research, fundraising, lobbying, coaching, mentoring, human resources, budget advising, communications, strategic partnerships, multicultural outreach, diversity training, classroom assistants, child development experts, environmental health, nutrition education, and mediation) | ||
| Carrie Adams – (1990-2010) | $1,150,960.65 | |
| Cindy Adams – (1989-2010) | $1,643,887.75 | |
| Bev Enders – (1994-2009) | $930,502.50 | |
| Tricia Pietrzyk – (1991-2010) | $1,612,871.00 | |
| Balance Due: | $5,338,221.90 | |
| Total Due: | $5,338,221.90 |
Dear Superintendent Smith,
We are extremely excited that our youngest children have exited or will be exiting your public education system very soon. For the past twenty years each of us has spent countless (until we counted) hours volunteering in schools or working on the outside to improve your woefully inadequate public education system.
We never planned to be paid for our services because we felt like it was our duty to contribute to our community AND we thought that PPS was broke. Thank gooodness for Zeke Smith. Zeke made it clear to us last Monday that PPS isn’t concerned about the money.
Marshall parents have had to work twice as hard as parents from other schools just to get a minimal level of district support in our neighborhood. Many of us are the reason that you have successful high poverty schools. You blame us for failure. Credit us for success. We’ve been involved in the education of children in the Marshall neighborhood and throughout the system.
We’ve attached a bill for our services. We weren’t sure of the best way to bill you for our hours so we hired a consulting firm from Florida to figure it out for us. They came up with BILLIONS of possible scenarios but we ignored those and decided to charge Zeke’s rate.
We recognize that we are probably cheating ourselves by using his salary as a guide ($124,067) since EVERY one of us has more education experience than Zeke but we’re okay with that. Besides, none of us have Zeke’s degree in theater.
Sincerely,
Marshall Cluster Moms Inc.
3 comments
This is a wonderful post! As a student of Grant high school, putting in a valiant effort to keep gas in my car every week so I can attend a school that will provide me with the comprehensive education that I was denied in my own neighborhood (MARSHALL), I am excited to see my everyday thoughts and feelings in this post. Thank you ladies!
Having known three of those lovely ladies for a few years I am sure that the dollar amount listed is actually under what it should be. Can we add all the staff and coaches who also work their butts off, spend their own money, have more experience and then get told that they are not good enough or have not done enough.
Hear, hear!
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