re: Vermilion Parish teacher arrested during school board meeting

I'm not sure why people are arguing they "needed" the spend the money. Most school parishes have it set up that the money they get can go into a special fund to be used later. They just have to track and show where and how the money is being used.
The issue is a lot of these parishes get special grants from the state or federal government and then they feel is the time to use some of that extra money on stuff that isn't really needed at the time.
The superintendent is already the highest paid person in every school district. What they do is go to budget meetings but they do not design the budget, they have a financial team, they sign off on payroll checks, yet they don't hire anyone HR does that. The make speeches that are usually written by a teacher that was given a "bonus" to write, they meet about curriculum but usually have no clue what is being used as most parishes have someone in charge of curriculum for the different subjects.

In my experience the Superintendent is more of a figure head position that once people get into they stay well past retirement. It is a position that is hard to get into and it helps when you know the right people, some of these smaller parishes are pretty corrupt on how they handle the election of a new superintendent.