Recently announced Dr. Benny Gooden, Superintendent of the Fort Smith School System, was elected President of the American Association of School Administrators—a government union lobbying group. 

Since this is a national organization (14,000 members) one can deduce that the magnitude of the association to which he was elected will require full time participation and in all likelihood will be stationed in Washington, D.C. This means that Dr. Gooden will not be occupying his office or present on the campuses of Fort Smith schools.  He, the Fort Smith School Board and the media, without a detailed explanation of his new involvement apparently have created a cover-up and in his absence will allegedly perform his duties via telecommunications and his multiple minions.   This begs the question, why is he needed at all?

Prior to his election to the presidency of this huge government expanding entity he undoubtedly had to campaign for the presidential office of AASA and makes this particularly odious speaking of the election campaign.  Who paid for his campaign, travel expenses and how many days was he off?  Obviously, another example of a Government Protection Racket.
The honorable thing for Dr. Gooden to have done freely was to take a year’s leave of absence and divest himself from salary & perks.   Since this was not done, the faux School Board most definitely should have demanded he do so in order to protect beleaguered citizen taxpayers, and lastly the local media should have done in-depth investigative reporting, especially in light of all the reports recently concerning double-dippers in education.

Superintendent Gooden is double-dipping, is involved in a huge conflict of interest (union/government interests vs. private taxpayers), and if not abusing his contractual arrangements, he still lacks a professional ethic.

The only conclusion that can be reached regarding Dr. Gooden’s year long absence is that he and the other superintendents of the AASA are expanding their wing of the education lobby, all at taxpayer expense.

The questions before the citizens of Fort Smith…are you going to demand that Dr. Gooden dissolve his double-dipping, conflicts and/or contractual arrangements or are you going to suffer another dose of euthanasia?  

If these facts & assumptions are not correct please explain in detail.

Joe McCutchen

P.S. Who paid for the Fort Smith School Board members & Gov. Beebe’s transportation & incidentals to & from his inauguration in Washington, D.C.?

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