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Their next degree should be in media relations

by: Jason Springer

Tue Aug 19, 2008 at 09:47:40 AM EDT

Sometimes no comment leaves you with much more credibility than the words that actually come out of your mouth. Take for example, the latest statements by school administrators trying to defend their degrees received from "diploma mills". First we have Freehold Schools Superintendent James Wasser. This is the man who chastised a student earlier this year for not addressing him as "Dr":

Wasser insists he earned his degree online so he could save the taxpayers money and not take time away from his job. "I could have left my job at 2 o'clock in the afternoon," he said. "I chose not to. I could have cost the taxpayers a tremendous amount of money."

Come on, are you serious? You got an extra degree to help the taxpayers? Previously he has already defended his decision to get his degree in this manner:

"I did it. I would do it again. The only thing I would probably do differently is, now that I am aware of this word "accreditation,' I would thoroughly research that."

Now a school administrator doesn't know what accreditation is? I'm glad he's familiar with "this word" now, but he should become more familiar with the saying, "When you get in a hole, stop digging." Moving on from Wasser, we have Asbury Park acting superintendent James Parnham who received a "Masters of Arts" from another questionable school and described what he did to earn the degree:

Parnham said his degree was based on his life experience, and that it took him about a month to put his resume together to get the diploma.
Asked if he received his Almeda degree in return for merely submitting his resume, Parham said, "I also had to do a paper."
How long was the paper?
"The paper must have been about two, maybe three pages," he said.

It is an insult to listen to these people try to defend themselves. A whole month to put together a resume and a 2-3 page paper coupled with life experience? The next degree these people go for should be one in media relations, so they can learn when its better to not relate at all.

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Tone deaf (0.00 / 0)

Tone deaf with a penchant for victimhood...
if i start acting that way around anyone reading this, take me and immediately flush my head in the toilet to get be back to my senses.

activist for hire.

by: Jay Lassiter @ Tue Aug 19, 2008 at 14:16:48 PM UTC

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They will be getting degrees in media relations. (0.00 / 0)

Unfortunately, those degrees will also obtained based on "life experience." This incident can be the prime example in their "theses."

by: dennisl @ Tue Aug 19, 2008 at 17:36:44 PM UTC

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This Is Fraud!!!! How Can it Be Legal!!! (4.00 / 1)

We have professional educators here in charge of our children's education who CHEATED and obtained phony credentials!!!

And then they are rewarded with RAISES!!!????!!!

What the FUCK is gong on here?

There should be thousands of parents marching on Trenton with pitchforks, tar and feathers!!!

These thieving deceptive bastards need to be fired; not promoted. They need to lose their pensions not have them padded.

Only in NJ is a fake degree "good enough" for "educators"!

The sheer unmitigated gall of these brazen crooks is astounding!!!

If this shit is actually legal it needs to be outlawed NOW!!!

This kind of deception should land you in JAIL!!!

Who has written a bill to outlaw this practice? And it does need to be made retroactive!!!

What an example this sets for the kids, eh?

(I bet many of the scumbags who are doing this are "well connected" and got their jobs through political associations.)

by: Nick Lento @ Tue Aug 19, 2008 at 17:40:56 PM UTC

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What would be interesting... (0.00 / 0)

Would be to know how well the Freehold school district is performing.

Since we know that the super's masters degree has no bearing on the performance of the district (since it's worthless), I'd like to know how the district compares with other similar districts whose super's posess the proper credentials.

I'm willing to bet there's not much difference.

I'm afraid I'm starting to get more cynical than usual and I'm starting to believe these advanced degrees are nothing more than excuses for raises, and don't have much to do with the children.

Maybe someone in education can tell me for sure, but I've also heard than teachers can bump their salaries with courses/degrees obtained that have absolutely no bearing on what they teach, that practice should probably be examined as well.

"Where ever you go, there you are." - Buckaroo Bonzai

by: William Weber (WjcW) @ Tue Aug 19, 2008 at 18:15:08 PM UTC

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I would agree with you (0.00 / 0)

Often, the advanced degrees allow a teacher to advance to an administrator position, i.e. curriculum development, personnel services, etc.

Yes, some of them, especially in the humanities, should help a teacher be more adept at instructing his/her students in proper studies, but I would figure still that most advanced degrees are for the "behind the scenes" people within a school district.

And since they are away from the public, we never really know what good are these advanced degrees in people performing their job.

And seriously, for a school administrator to not know what the word "accreditation" means is outright insane. Public schools are re-accredited every 5-7 years, and I'm sure an interviewer would ask a prospective employee of their skills in such an area.

Don't get me wrong, I'm 100% in favor of public schools, but no where other than the halls of Trenton is there more corruption in New Jersey than in the offices of school districts. And I'm very supportive of unions, but the NJEA is quite tonedeaf itself. Yes, NJ public schools are the best in the nation, but what good does that do if all of the best NJ graduates attend college outside of New Jersey? Because that is what's happening, no thanks to an increase in public school funding of $500 million at the expense of 10-11% cuts for all public higher education institutions.

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by: mconvente @ Tue Aug 19, 2008 at 23:47:39 PM UTC

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This floored me... (0.00 / 0)

"I did it. I would do it again. The only thing I would probably do differently is, now that I am aware of this word "accreditation,' I would thoroughly research that."

Check out my 3 paragraph primer on Polywell Fusion.

by: FogerRox @ Tue Aug 19, 2008 at 18:37:00 PM UTC

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