Two Boston Public School administrators, Natasha Halfkenny and Coreen Miranda, used donated “Hamilton” tickets intended for students to take their sons, who were not Boston Public School students.
Both administrators paid $4,000 civil penalties for violating the state’s conflict of interest law by denying three students the opportunity to attend the show.
Coreen Miranda and her sons had already attended and enjoyed the same “Hamilton” performance a month prior to taking the tickets again for the March 1, 2023 show.
Shitheads. Corrupt, asshole shitheads.
We need more of this accountability. I can think of a few billionaires who could use a fine. (All of them)
I think the appropriate accountability here would be to for those administrators to have to enroll their children in public school. If they think that’s a problem it’s up to them to make the schools better. The administrators obviously think public school students don’t need extra access to culture or expensive things, they’re doing just fine.
And these public school administrators are making 140,000k a year???
If corruption became impossible due to some update of human moral firmware, the human world would break down to what I suspect would be a surprisingly large extent. Corruption isn’t always a side-issue, it’s integral to how some human governance systems work.
This is just wrong.
We’ll never find out, because corruption is not going away.