The Peter Principle on Steroids: How Hollow Leaders Turned Schools Into Dumpster Fires
When Stupidity Becomes Policy, and Policy Becomes a Dumpster Fire
You ever notice how the same people trusted to mold our kids’ brains seem hell-bent on proving they don’t have any of their own?
Case in point: Chicago’s public schools are so deep in the fiscal outhouse they need a scuba tank to breathe. A $734 million deficit. Almost 1,500 teachers and staff on the chopping block. But instead of tightening belts, they’re busy auditioning for sainthood as a sanctuary city, shoveling resources to illegal immigrants like there’s no tomorrow.
Call me old-fashioned, but maybe—just maybe—if you can’t pay your teachers, you should stop pretending you’re the Ellis Island Welcome Wagon. But no, the administrators running Chicago’s schools prefer the old cover-your-ass routine: spend money you don’t have, then blame everyone but yourself when the roof caves in.
And while Chicago’s schools are financially imploding, the University of North Texas decided to see how much constitutional gasoline it could throw on its own credibility.
Dr. Timothy Jackson had the gall—the sheer audacity—to organize a scholarly debate. You know, the kind of thing universities used to exist for before they became day spas for fragile egos. His reward? A kangaroo-court investigation and a pink slip. UNT brass, terrified a Twitter mob might find them insufficiently woke, tried to nuke his career from orbit.
How’d that work out?
Well, now the university gets to write a $725,000 check with “oops, we trampled the First Amendment” in the memo line. If there’s any justice left, this is just the first wave of bankrupting every administrator who thinks the Bill of Rights is optional.
Then there’s the Nysmith School for the Gifted—a title that feels more ironic by the day. Three Jewish kids bullied for their heritage. Parents complained. The school’s response? Expel the kids. Problem solved, right? Can’t have uncomfortable headlines about antisemitism if you just erase the victims.
It’s like the administrators across this country are in a competition to see who can set the biggest dumpster fire—and then douse it with lighter fluid.
They mess up.
Then they double down.
Then they gaslight the rest of us into thinking their idiocy is “progress.”
You’d think these clowns would run out of excuses. But no. They’ve got endless binders of bureaucratic gobbledygook to justify why their policies always end up crushing the innocent and rewarding the incompetent.
Here’s a little secret:
When an institution starts running from accountability, it’s only a matter of time before it’s running from the truth.
These are only three examples of the industrial-strength idiocy infecting our schools.
Maybe these administrators think they were elected and can swagger around like politicians, staring us in the eye and boldly lying right to our faces.