Earl Metzler's ED Problem - Granite Grok

Earl Metzler’s ED Problem

The Earl of MetzlerDonna Green has an excellent overview of how Timberlane School District Superintendent Earl Metzler has an ED problem. That’s Education-budget Disorder. It seems he can’t keep up with his own hyperbolic fiscal histrionics. Declarations of doom that never come to pass.

Poor Superintendent Metzler.  First, he threatens to close a school.  Fails at that but not before he displaces hundreds of Sandown students and forces staff into crowded conditions.  Then he threatens 81.5 staff.  Fails at that.  Now he’s down to a hollow threat of 50 staff cuts.  You can be sure he’ll fail at that, too.  It’s too bad because the district does need to cut excess staff.  Unfortunately, he isn’t the man for the job.

Incendiary threats?  He’s the guy!  Proactively embarrassing the school board and bullying them, too.  A+.  Actual management?  [Insert your grade here.]

Metzler is infamous in the activist community (and the New Hampshire Court system).

We’ve had plenty of fun chronicling his antics for our readers, but Green, having spent years doing battle with his bureaucracy over even the simplest of requests has an encyclopedic database of content. Her blog was created to record her misadventures in the land of Timberlane, SAU55 where a tyrannical Earl runs roughshod over the locals, taxpayers, taxpayers wallets, and school board members.

Anyone interested in learning about how local tyrants rule their fiefdoms should spend some time sifting through the content. It should be required reading for school board members.

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