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Consultant Hiring Under Scrutiny

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: January 4, 2008

Regarding "School Board OKs Speaker's Hiring" (Metro, Dec. 19):

The Hillsborough County School Board will spend $25,000 for an etiquette consultant to speak about manners to a small number of male students at two schools. This sum, I understand, will be in addition to more than $40,000 this particular consultant has previously received from the school board budget for like services.

After the "wellness consultant" hiring that was criticized a few weeks ago, I would have thought the employment of another consultant would have been more closely scrutinized and, hopefully, dispensed with by the school board.

Even though this consultant is alleged to be a "phenomenal" speaker, wouldn't education funds be better spent on an extra teacher?

Of course, we could just ask parents to teach their children better manners and avoid the expense altogether.

GEORGE H. BROWN

Apollo Beach

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