Ineptness in UCSD . . . and Elsewhere

So now we find out that the Utica City School District has been wasting months “studying” a project that it cannot carry out. While the architects are taking the fall, I see this as really the administration’s incompetence . . . and an example of how educators are not qualified to be managers. They saw a huge pot of money and could not wait to get their hands on it. They made the assumptions on what it could be used for and took action before Synthesis even got on board – - unless Synthesis was ‘unofficially’ advising the administration before they were ‘chosen’ from among several ‘competitors’ (but there is no evidence of that). The administration is letting their contractor take the fall.

Should this be any surprise when these administrators and school board are the same people who brought you the scheduling fiasco and no-textbooks fiasco a couple years back?

One has to wonder, also, about the competence of the state leaders who made such a tempting huge pot of money available. It only encourages waste. 300 million for Utica, almost a billion for Syracuse . . . now add together similar projects across the state and you know why NY is the highest taxed state in the land.

If New York can blow this kind of money on education, New York can well afford to give us a free Thruway . . . which will probably do more to boost Upstate’s economy than all the new school facilities combined.