Kenosha Unified Headquarters
(File Photo by Kevin Mathewson, Kenosha County Eye)
A handful of people have been asking me the same question lately: “Why are you picking on KUSD?” The answer is simple. I follow the leads and tips. KCE is bigger than just me. It’s a network of patriots that see something and say something. I get dozens of tips every week. Lately, they have been saturated with complaints about KUSD.
Do I hold an animus against KUSD? No. That might sound disingenuous. It’s not. My kids, both in high school, have had great teachers. We’ve been lucky. Unfortunately they both had accused groomer Christin Enwright as a teacher, but other than him, they were blessed with wonderful educators. My kids’ principals, Angela Andersson and Scott Hodges, I found to be incompetent boobs. However, the teachers at KTEC were top-notch.
Does it really matter that the principals were terrible? Not really. They weren’t in the classrooms every day with my kids. Do I think the top two administrators at KUSD are incompetent and lack the morals and courage to do the right thing? Yes. Superintendent Jeff Weiss ($233,376) and Chief of School Leadership William Haitcock ($177,311) suck. They don’t care about our kids. But most of the teachers do. That’s why I think my kids’ experience at KUSD has been good – because of the teachers.
I like my children’s’ principal and think he does a great job. So I’m not picking on KUSD, per se. I’m just following the evidence, and the evidence seems to point to systemic failure of school leadership. The board, ran by six democrats and one republican, allow the top two administrators to do whatever they want with no consequences. They keep doing the same thing and expect different results. Isn’t that the definition of insanity? Now they want to raise our taxes. You know how you can fix KUSD with not one penny spent, fire Jeff Weiss and William Haitcock. It’s free.
(File Photo by Kevin Mathewson, Kenosha County Eye)
(File Photo by Kevin Mathewson, Kenosha County Eye)
If you are reading this and you live in Pleasant Prairie, Somers, or Kenosha and you want to affect change, vote for that change. We need a new school board that will fire Jeff Weiss and replace him with an administrator who gives a shit about our kids, Weiss a Racine County resident doesn’t care about what happens in this community, he’s not a part of this community.
In conclusion, you are seeing many stories about KUSD becuase KUSD leadership is chaos and the furits of that chaos is what you’re reading here day after day.
Have a great weekend and thank-you for reading!
Kevin
22 Responses
I couldn’t agree more. Please keep reporting on the tips you get. KUSD takes the biggest chunk of our property tax dollars, and the Board/Administration are the worst government entity to deal with for taxpayers. They don’t care what parents or taxpayers want.
What has Weiss done to earn his HUGE salary?
Keep up the good work!
Thanks for letting me know especially at indian trails… Let’s see what the DA will do if she well charge them or let them go like the first teacher that was grooming a child
I thought the School Board had 5 Democrats and 2 Republicans?
Schmaling is only conservative
Keep pushing, Kevin. This publication is the only source we have for what’s actually going on in our town.
KUSD has been a mess for over 20 years, and you’re finally uncovering the systemic failures perpetrated by administrators and teachers alike.
Keep shining the light!
Please follow the Curtis Tolefree case.
Well known challenge is “If you don’t say or do something nothing will ever change”
Of course people in Kenosha give up when no matter how many times they see the same issues brought up nothing happens–been going on for years and years.
So now it’s likely not a case of deeper digging by KCE, but more of a case that parents and others now know that indeed something will be done only because of Kenosha County Eye.
Some positive stories would be good to offset the doom and gloom. 🙂 But it’s not like you are fabricating these stories, all are truth and thank you for your excellent reporting.
Keep up the great work, KCE. I appreciate you shining a light on topics/news we otherwise may not know about. Thank you for doing what you do!
As someone said maybe a couple of positive stories about the many fine teachers out there. The administrators are usually, in my experience, lazy worthless people who add zero value to the education system. Weiss is a total zero.
You don’t have to explain yourself! I really appreciate it!
Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
I think we are all tired of reading about KUSD. But that’s no excuse to piss on the messenger.
What I’d like to know is whether the number of personnel issues at KUSD is out of synch with other comparable school districts — better, worse or the same?