Not sure what the point of this article is about. This is not a thankless job - Johnson probably receives a hugh salary over $200,000 and benefits -that's over 200,000 thank you's annually.

We are also pointing out the failures of her policy it is just not making it to print. This is not about her failure to discipline it is her administrations continued lack of policy and protocol . We have seen this pattern in Food Mgmt., Transport and now The Personnel dept. Carol Johnsons team is costing our taxpayers too much with little return. We spend akin to17.7 k per student this is not reflected on the ground it is wasted at the top,

Tee-hee... but Carol Johnson actually serves on the Private Industry Council--so does the Boston Teachers Union's chief: http://www.bostonpic.org/sites/default/files/Board_Council_members_3.5.12.pdf How do the teaching types feel about Johnson's leadership? How do teachers feel about administrative leadership--about the leadership of the many principals who have had some, well, behavioral problems of their own? How do parents feel about the Boston Public Schools--even poor, illiterate parents who are hardly "threatening" to leave the city over, say, school "choice"......

"Her track record is exceptional." Defend Dr. Johnson if you wish, but let's not pretend that her track record is exceptional. Have we forgotten the plan for five zones, have we forgotten the late bus arrivals, have we forgotten Hyde Park high school altogether?

I agree with CaesarAmericanus and Kennyjervis and am very disappointed in Reverend David Wright for trying to spin this story. I have just one question for him, where was the oversight? - There was the fiasco that was allowed to go on at English High the last three years. Narcisse bragging in the "Jamaica Plain Gazette" that English High had the highest "5th year" graduation rate! Since Dr. Johnson appointed Narcisse headmaster, English High has spiraled down, in 2011, 68 out of 149 students graduated! In 2012, 89 out of 179 graduated! The cost to the Boston Public Schools, $16,666 x 170 students is $2,833,220 to retain those students another year because, even though Narcisse had the "race to the top" money, he didn't spend it on safeguards like on-site credit recovery, or remediation services that would have given these students the opportunity to graduate on time! If a student has to repeat a year of high school, it cost the student around $17,000+/- dollars, because that is a year they could have been working. If they put that money in the bank, by the time the student is ready to retire, it amounts to half a million dollars! It's even more if the student graduates from college! Where was the oversight? - Under Dr. Johnson's leadership, there was the closing of the Emerson School, Teachers and Parents disproved the data that BPS presented and fought to keep the school open. Emerson Parents and Teachers spent countless hours refuting erroneous information spun by the BPS, pleaded their case at school committee meetings, and gathered neighborhood signatures of support, yet, that school was closed! A short time later, BPS School Committee member Barros, as part of his non-profit Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI), submitted an application, which was approved by the state to open a Horace Mann Charter School in the Emerson Building! Just these past few weeks the DSNI received a "Promise Neighborhoods Planning Grants" for $500,000, which Barros applied for on October 25, 2010! What a conflict of interest, and what a slap in the face to the Parents and Teachers of the Emerson School Community! Where was the oversight? - Then there were the BOSTON parents of Special Ed students who had to sue the Boston Public Schools to get services! WBUR reported, "Since fall, the city has added 20 classrooms to serve special education preschoolers. That has meant scrambling to hire or transfer teachers — and, in the case of the Fifield, reopening an entire school just months before the academic year winds down." Didn't anyone in BPS know in June 2011, when they were closing all those schools, that they would need an additional 20 special education classrooms! Kids went for months not receiving the services they were legally entitled to! That's not what we are about in Boston! Where was the oversight? www2.ed.gov/programs/promiseneighborhoods/2010/narratives/u215p100187.pdf - 2010-10-25 http://www.wbur.org/2012/04/12/boston-special-edu