When Richard Benjamin was director of the Metro Nashville school system, during one particularly contentious salary negotiation I voted along with 94% of my fellow teachers to donate a day's pay and buy out the remaining time on his contract and fire him. That didn't happen, but the school board got the message. He was gone less than a year later, despite having ben mayor Phil Bredesen's roommate in college. He had been fired from two other large school systems prior to coming to Nashville.
