Fleeing Administrators Identified--Wirth and Fitzpatrick

The latest administrators to flee the Bale’s Bailiwick of Bad Treatment are Shawn Wirth, the AP at Madison who has gone to Fallbrook and Susan Fitzpatrick principal of Breeze Hill who has fled to Del Mar.

These two are the 36th and 37th administrators to leave VUSD in the last two years according to VUSD sources. This rate of attrition is close to twenty times the normal rate (pre-Bales) in VUSD. Gee, I wonder why so many administrators are leaving? Guffanti’s group has frequently said the ones leaving are the “lazy” administrators that have never had to work and never did any work before the Bales became our “dear leader”. One of Guffanti’s lovely friends calls them “rats leaving a ship.” The true answer is they leave because they can. They belong to the one group of employees that have the ability to run away to freedom from “Bale-ery” without taking a massive pay cut.

Sadly, it is not as easy for teacher’s to leave a district as it is for administration. Teachers have to start all over again at the bottom of a new district’s pay scale costing them as much as thirty thousand dollars a year whereas administrators are allowed to move laterally and get equal or higher pay when they change to a new district.

It is not fair, but that is the way it is in California. Teachers with experience, our very best teachers, are stuck here under the Bales regime. Good for the kids of our district, not so good for our best teachers. Their only hope is a change on the VUSD board of education. They need new school board members who are willing to take control and ‘tone down’ Joyce Bales more extreme and dictatorial actions.