Yes, Let's Dish
But how much is this going to cost me?
The New Guy loves to tell us how much he has listened during his listening sessions, but it’s clearly not as much as he loves telling us stuff during his talking sessions. Now our very poor school district, which already has a weekly TV station produced show called, CMSD 360°, is giving the New Guy a vodcast so that he can:
I can’t help but wonder how much this new product is going to cost but I have to wait for that particular public records request to be fulfilled to find out. The school district uses the free platform provided by You Tube to air the news products, but that might be the only free part.
The district pays a TV station manager a salary of $82,386 and a multimedia journalist $82,940 to tell us what is going on in the district each week. I actually watch the program every Monday morning before I wake my children up for school. I am a huge fan of highlighting the amazing things the students and staff do in CMSD. If we were a wealthy school district with buckets of money sitting around just looking to for places to spend it, I would absolutely have a TV station and a wonderful paid journalist on staff.
But Cleveland is poor and our school district is about to ask some (not the tax abated) homeowners to pass an expensive levy and bond issue. We should be cutting the extras and investing in a $20 ring light, a $30 podcast microphone and using a web cam before we even consider asking the taxpayers to pay more. I don’t need to hear the New Guy using resources we can’t afford to tell me fluff about the things he is doing, while the Chief of Education is plotting to cut the instructional minutes from my children’s school day.
While we are talking about things we cannot afford, can the Communications Officer making $159,500 please ask the Director of Communications making $86,139 to tell the Media Manager making $72,971 to have someone spell check his social media posts before he hits SEND? It’s “informative” not “imformative” as any of our CMSD teachers could tell you.
I caught myself laughing until I realized this isn’t story, then my stomach lurched. I, too, wondered the meaning of “inforative”? Perhaps it means more nonsense flavoring to leave us all guessing about that sizzling CMSD mystery dish.
I owe Michael Goodill a huge apology. Because of the job descriptions, I have heaped scorn on him for all of the social media failings. I was wrong. It's Candice Grose, the Communications Officer, who is screwing up communications from the district.