He Charged A Doughnut In Roanoke Just To Watch It Die

http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/306497


As if we do not have enough issues to deal with in education, we must contend with people in charge like Franklin County Superintendent Charles Lackey.  Lackey is being investigated for improper spending on the Franklin County School Board's credit card over the past few years.  Lackey is reported in the article as having bought a hard hat for a ground breaking ceremony at a school, and charged large food bills in Roanoke restaurants, but sources closer to the county state that the inappropriate spending goes further.  Lackey, a Franklin County School Board investigation proved, once charged less than $2.00 for a cup of coffee and a doughnut at a Roanoke bakery. Lackey downloaded over 1,300 songs on Itunes and then illegally made copies for his central office staff. 

What gets me is the hubris that Lackey showed when asked if he retained a lawyer.  Of cource he has committed a crime. If nothing else copyright infringement on the song that he downloaded and reproduced, but Lackey's crime is deeper.  Education is a hard field with out those around it making it harder.  It is judged by those outside the walls of a school as a no-brainer, easy, glorified babysitting profession that requires little more than a pulse.  Those who have done the good work know differently. Anyone who draws the eire of non-teachers on teachers, like Lackey has ultimately done, deserve to be drummed out of the profession. 

Lackey's actions are minor, yes I said minor,but to the teachers he is supposed to represent he had might as well had sold his grandmother into bondage.  Teachers spend on average $400 a year of their own money on school supplied and Lackey has the gaul to charge doughnut and hard hats to the school.  Had Lackey spent money on doughnuts for teachers at each of the schools in the district, then it would have been money well spent. Sources close to the matter state that Lackey did buy food someone, his staff and it was New York Cheesecake..shipped overnight from New York at an extra charge..to the school.  Lackey simple doesn't deserve to be in education if he is going to think and do like that.  School systems cannot afford champagne on the PBR budgets we are given from funding sources.  Those who think otherwise are a  determent to the profession.