Once again, another school superintendent from Marysville has left his position with a huge payout (“Ousted Marysville superintendent to get $400K in severance,” The Herald, Oct. 8) .
I was just waiting for that information to come out. It was just a matter of how much this time. How many times does this have to happen? We have a high school that needs desperately to be upgraded, and we are still paying superintendents to leave the district. I want somebody to find out who makes these contracts. Who says that they only have to stay for a year or two and do a terrible job and get paid to leave?
Go back 10, 15 years and check those contracts. Also check into the deal made to build Getchell High School. How much extra money was poured into building access roads to go up the hill? Who owned the land that suddenly has expensive houses lining the road? And the cost to bus kids to Marysville Pilchuck High School for after school activities?
And they wonder why they can’t pass levies. You can’t blame that or the terrible shooting that took place on the financial situation, and shame on them for trying to say so. This didn’t happen overnight.
Rebecca Banks
Marysville
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