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“This Can’t Be a Labor of Love. So said ICS Corporate Attorney, Jacqueline Schellinger, when asked why she couldn’t work for less than $330,000 per year by Jane Hamden, host of WUWM 91.7 FM’s “At Ten” show on May 11. The show focused on the Indian Community School of Milwaukee and included interviews with Bruce Murphy, investigative reporter with Milwaukee Magazine, Jacqueline Schellinger, attorney for the School, and Dave Denomie, spokesman for ICS4kids. Not the Peace Corps? That’s putting it mildly. It seems when it comes to the Indian Community School’s Corporate Counsel and her Board Member supporters, it’s as Tina Turner once said: “What’s love got to do with it?” Or, maybe it’s as Cuba Gooding said more recently, “Show me the money!” Any way you look at it, the large amounts of money ex-Judge Schellinger, the Board Members and top Administration continue to put into their own pockets are disgraceful. And continuing the multi-million dollar boondoggle construction project in Franklin under Schellinger’s supervision, after already wasting tens of millions of dollars on it and being more than five years behind schedule, further shows how far removed from reality our Board has become. All this has been occurring at the same time they have tried to tell us drastic staff and program cuts were needed or our School would go broke. While we can understand Schellinger’s need to provide a home for her children, we don’t agree that our School should be financing her new home in Scottsdale, Arizona, one of the wealthiest places in the US. We don’t agree that she should be collecting an annual salary more than three times what gets paid to the Presidents of our Native Nations in Wisconsin. We especially don’t agree when the amount of this one salary, Jackie Schellinger’s, could have kept more than three-quarters of our Teacher’s Aides on staff. But 19 Teachers Aides, most from our local Indian community, are gone, and instead of them we have one of the highest-paid attorneys in the state, the former School Board President, on staff now. (Click on the link to the upper-left to listen to the show on WUWM 91.7 FM’s website.) There will be more to follow on this website about this interview in the days ahead. We heard some real whoppers from the ex-Judge and the record needs to be corrected. In the meantime, listen to it for yourself, or read the transcript.
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