Lottery no game for Tennessee executive

Comment #13

tntea — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:59:55 GMT

I just received an 8th grader whose first experience of school was when she put her foot in my classroom this year. 9 years of no formal schooling. She had been homeschool... she new the word was ... and what a quarter is..

Now she misses every third day..

This 18 year old.... has anyone checked the school record to see how many days this girl attended school each year.

I do not have but 2 of 19 students who is at school 5 out of 5 days a week. When the students miss that m... [ More ]

Comment #12

KyMystikal — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 05:47:52 GMT

I totally agree with you tntea, but I'm thinking about helping the kids who are aready past kindergarten and are already behind. TN needs better teachers. It really got to me a few months ago when we had this girl start working at my job as a temp. She was 18 yrs old and had just graduated high school last year and she couldn't add or subtract. I had heard of people like this on tv and in the news but never seen anyone like it. She was from Michigan and always bragged about her graduating clas... [ More ]

Comment #11

tntea — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:59:30 GMT

Preschool is the biggest need right now in education. You would be surprised at the children who start kindergarten who have never picked up a book, ever read to, doesn't know their full name, nor their parents name. There are children who do not know their colors... or even what a color is. There are children who cannot even point to the sky when asked.

Due to parents not taking any precious time with them as toddlers for whatever reason.

Reading begins in kindergarten now instead o... [ More ]

Comment #10

Todd — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:30:43 GMT

I posted an important blog entry on this topic. Please check it out:

https://blogs.lotterypost.com/todd/2007/11/the-tennessee-lottery-strikes-out-again.htm

Comment #9

Tnplayer805 — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:08:27 GMT

$750,000??? If she is so concerned about education, why don't she donate some of that bonus to help? Interesting question isn't it? I guess the diet cokes and Salem menthols are more important. BTW, on the lottery website they put a stupid video of how the drawings are conducted.

Comment #8

KyMystikal — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:11:42 GMT

$750,000 is a lot of money. I think TN could have hired a book keeper/accountant and a few lottery players from some other states for 6 times less than what Rebecca makes, and still created the same output she has. The lottery was brought into TN with the intent to make money for education. I think there should be some sort of special program set up for those bonuses to which the money goes into a fund to help counties with education budget problems. I think the education lottery should help all... [ More ]

Comment #7

x1kosmic — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:31:55 GMT

Yea....

Miss Hargrove's really been livin' it up lately,

Thats o.k., Things have a way of eventually working out, when Cohen's around.

We were so happy when he got Tn. the lottery.....

I guess we;ll see how it goes, .....

Comment #6

tnlotto1 — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:51:04 GMT

$750,000 is a large salary to walk away from compared to what other directors around the country make so another state would have to offer her that or more to leave.

Comment #5

tntea — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:58:43 GMT

Please some other state hire this woman. We need her out of TN..

Comment #4

tnlotto1 — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:51:07 GMT

She's no Michael Jordan. She's more like Horace Grant, that is a great line

Comment #3

four4me — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:41:11 GMT

Rebecca may have a lot of experience being in the drivers seat. But when you let that go to your head and it becomes so swollen that it affects your rational.

She may think she has been doing a good job when in fact she neglects the peoples point of view and instills her one minded attitude towards the business forging the fundamentals of what makes the lottery a success which are the people playing the games.

Comment #2

RJOh — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:00:38 GMT

Lotteries are run by states to make money like any gambling business and lottery executives like executives in any business expect to make big salaries.

Using lotteries to support education or some charitable cause make it easier for the average Joe who plays to feel he's contributing to a good cause rather than gambling his money away and allows the state to claim a higher cause than those private gambling for profit businesses.

Comment #1

JAP69 — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:32:53 GMT

which has totaled $750,000 in some years.

If you have the knowledge and experience in a profession be compensated for it.

Why work for a paltry sum when you can get more.

If she was asked to start up another lottery why not ask for a flat fee for startup compensation. Then turn the operation over to someone else after startup.

I would ask at least 10 million.

Lottery no game for Tennessee executive

Lottery Post — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:12:42 GMT

Standing recently in Neyland Stadium with roaring University of Tennessee football fans, Rebecca Paul Hargrove, the highflying impresario of legalized gambling, proudly waved a symbolic check for a billion dollars. The moment, captured on jumbo screens across the stadium, was among the countless plugs for the fund-raising prowess of Tennessee's lottery, which Hargrove started four years ago.

As lottery executives go, few can claim her knack for seizing the spotlight. No matter the occasion, H... [ More ]