Shaw’s Law
“When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.” – George Bernard Shaw
It’s refreshing to a degree that Shaw’s comment will never lack for idiots to prove its worth. The latest and most delicious example comes to us courtesy of the administrators at Maurice J. McDonough High School in Charles County, Maryland. It’s sure-fire evidence of over-administration that the school-district spokeswoman, Katie O’Malley-Simpson and the school spokesman, John White were firing off declarations of duty over the explosive and cutting-edge issue of neckties versus bolo ties.
There was a day when the high school Principal or Superintendent of Schools could manage to stumble out a few words on their own, but it’s progress I guess to have spokespersons in these times when education fails us in direct proportion to the increase in administrators.
Actually, that’s probably not a fair assessment---40% of those involved in education today are administrators a…