If the P&C was looking for empathy with retired state employees on pension in the great "how-are-we-going-to-pay-our-obligations" scandal here in South Carolina, it shouldn't have posted Janet Rose, retired CCSD "executive director of assessment and accountibility," above the fold. Why not a retired policeman or city employee?Rose should be considered the poster child for cronyism in CCSD. Under her watch CCSD crafted its oh-so-transparent Buist lottery process and promised parents living on the peninsula that they could move away from District 20, the list their child was admitted on, as soon as their child's number was "picked."
Furthermore, the reporter thought it too embarrassing to ask Rose what her actual pension is. Far from the $19,000 per year average--which probably reflects many former police and firefighters. Of that you can be sure. Rose says that her pension is "only about half of what she earned." What she earned, unlike the poor peons who actually are in the classroom, was over $100,000 per year.
That means that she's getting more than most experienced teachers make per year or have a hope of getting in a pension.
This is the educrat responsible for allowing students who do not even live in Charleston County to attend CCSD magnet schools without paying tuition.
But we shouldn't be surprised to see her sob story on the front page. After all, these are the educrats favored by the editors of the Post and Courier.
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Well said.
I agree. The editors picked the wrong retiree to illustrate the problem. This one is the exception which should cause us to show little or no concern. This one isn't typical. Neither is that of her former boss, the school district superintendent, who is questionably allowed in her contract to not contribute to the state pension progam at all. Is this opt-out clause even legal?
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