A professor of business and economics minces no words when it comes to C. J. Huff's administrative decisions.
In a letter provided to media, the professor criticized Huff and the board of education:
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Our previous and current school board, and current administration, have made some serious blunders in fiscal and personnel management, thus creating our current situation. The School District is top-heavy in all levels of management, as well as being extremely over paid. Our schools are lacking responsible, ethical and moral leadership from some school board members and our school's present administration. We demand accountability! We are losing our good teachers because of their lack of staff management! We must hold our school board and administration accountable for their lack of supervision and inadequate attention.
The letter was written in 2007 by Gene Bauer, a professor of business and economics at State Fair Community College and came in opposition to a tax levy increase proposed by the baby-faced superintendent of the Eldon School District, C. J. Huff.
If the accusations in that paragraph sounded familiar to those who have watched the performance of the Joplin R-8 School District over the years that C. J. Huff has been superintendent, then some of the other charges leveled by Bauer should also ring a bell:
-Because of our administration's ineptness concerning state guidelines and rules regarding curriculum, we are being placed on probationary status by the state board of education. Our administrators (not our children) are responsible for scoring an unacceptable 75 on the states last district audit! (You may recall that the Joplin school district scored an equally unacceptable 78.)
-Our tax dollars are supposed to be spent for kindergarten through 12th grade. Why then is our administration taking $500,000 of our tax dollars and spending it on head start programs? The $500,000 in Eldon has become $15 million in Joplin.
Reportedly, the financial situation in Eldon was dire when the Joplin R-8 Board of Education thought enough of C. J. Huff to bring him here and give him more money than the previous superintendent, Jim Simpson, who had led Joplin to give straight accredited with distinction ratings from DESE. The fifth one, it should be noted, was announced during the early months of C. J. Huff's first year in the district.
The financial problems appear to be a result of Huff conducting business here the same way he did in Eldon. He explained his business methods to the Lake of the Ozarks Business Journal in 2007:
"We are also applying for several grants – healthy schools, preschool, volunteer, but the problem with grants is that there is a stop date on them and then we have to figure out where to come up with the money to continue the programs they were funding.
At Joplin, Huff's team has applied for one grant after another, many times adding employees, then using other funds to pay for those positions when the grants run out. One such example is the creation of teaching and learning coaches for the school district. When the grant money was gone, not only did the jobs remain, but more were added.
Eldon was lucky. For that school district, bright futures began when the Joplin R-8 School District decided to bring C. J. Huff here to construct a new educational pyramid scheme
11 comments:
Did the board make no effort to vet either Huff or Besendorfer, or are they just attracted to crooked losers and abusers?
Again, Joplin, it's time to storm the MODOT castle and hold these people accountable! THIS IS HAPPENING TO A MUCH HIGHER DEGREE IN YOUR SCHOOLS !!
Does no one have the guts to fire or prosecute this overpaid hustler? Why do we have law enforcement and auditing agencies if they're going to let this man move from one district to another and clean out the taxpayers and destroy the schools? This 2007 article is just like what Joplin is facing, only we're in a whole lot more thanks to a lax and/or crooked school board and a blind eye by state officials. It's time for any and all to demand a change in more than board members.
He does the same thing--looks for grants to support his posse and proposes early childhood. It's simple, really, schmooze a bunch of hayseeds, steal them blind, and then soften the blow by pretending to care by saying "it's for the children." BS. It's to puff up the little Napoleon.
I despise this little jerk. He has ruined our schools and has gotten away with it. Obviously, we can see this isn't anything new. Time to go, Huff. And leave your certificate behind so you don't get tempted to destroy another district.
Hey hey, ho ho, Dr. Huff has got to go!
Grants. Grants. Grants. How about staying in your budget like staff has to do, which gets harder every year we don't have a raise but things keep getting more expensive? I wonder what it's like to know everywhere you go you are disrespected and disliked by everyone but your handful of brownnosers. I wouldn't care for that. I'd try to fix things or at least take responsibility for the mess. Huff is a perpetual victim who will never be accountable. Like the doors being closed at East--everyone's fault but his. Anyone with half a brain, which puts him out of the running, would give the keys to law enforcement, the mayor, firefighters, first responders. Taking care of the public is their job. What an idiot. But apparently, smarter than the idiots who keep him in place.
Randy Turner would have you believe that no one appreciates CJ Huff. Nothing could be further from the truth. The people from Webb City, Carl Junction, Carthage, Jasper and Sarcoxie appreciate him for being superintendent of that other Jasper County school and not ours.
I guess all of you who made Huff a victim of Besendorfer's wicked plans have just been proved wrong. They're equally evil creatures who found just the right bunch to take advantage of. You can only be a victim as long as you allow it. Time for Joplin to step up and drive the snakes out of the den. Huff would recommend pitchforks and lanterns be used since that's what he claims as the weapons of choice for conservatives.
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That just hurts. We'd give him to you in a heartbeat. Not only does Joplin make your scores look better, you get our teachers too. Salt in the wound.
I would think educated people everywhere would find this man's bunk to be deplorable. How does Banwart back him? It's surprising that she is taken in so easily. Same way with Sticklen. His babyface isn't that cute, ladies. Hold him accountable for his actions and lack of ethics.
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