abstract:Poormaster is the name of a now obsolete job position similar to that of Paymaster. Most of the states in the early United States had their own poormaster.
Mr. Bloomberg and his schools chancellor at the time, Joel Klein, expanded its Teaching Fellows program, which enticed teachers to work in poor schools by paying for their master's degree.
Yes, that meant the poor roach rarely had the dignity of seeing its master face to face, although there's some consolation in knowing that it wore the backpack for limited periods and had a required 30-second pause between instructions.