LaBonte, Rosemary

Reader critical of superintendents' compensation

Rosemary LaBonte, Orange County Register "The best quote? James Fleming of Capistrano Unified: 'This job is hard and demanding.' Cry me a river. Here are some hard and demanding jobs: air traffic controller; paralegal with a demanding boss; a guy picking strawberries in a field for eight hours. The superintendents think they are part executive, part mediator and part politician. Actually, the job is 100 percent politics. And when did those in the teaching profession become company executives with "lifestyles" that had to be maintained?"

Reader's reaction to an article published in The Orange County Register entitled, "O.C. superintendents in elite pay class," News, April 24, 2005.