Study: Half of All School Employees Not Teachers, 130% Increase Since 1970

Cybercast News Service ^ | August 18, 2014 - 3:57 PM | Zoey DiMauro

[Olog-hai]

The ranks of non-teachers—such as administrators, counselors, teacher aides and cafeteria workers—has swelled 130 percent since 1970 and they now make up 50 percent of all public school employees according to a new study, The Hidden Half: School Employees Who Don’t Teach.

Looking at data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the Thomas B. Fordham Institute found that the growth of non-teaching staff has greatly outpaced student growth over the past four decades.

From 1970 to 2010, the number of students grew by 8.6 percent, while the number of non-teaching personnel increased by 130 percent. Non-teachers now consume over a quarter of all education expenditures, the study found.

In addition, America now spends a greater percentage of its education funding on non-teachers than any other country in the world besides Denmark. …

[clearcarbon]

Isn’t it amazing how much more self reliant all previous generations of Americans have been when compared to the current one.

[Jack Hammer]

You mmay be wondering why you’re paying such high taxes for “education” for your son or daughter.

Wonder no more - you’re paying for a virtual army of bureaucrats, paper-pushers, and hangers-on who would never make it in the private sector.

[Senator_Blutarski]

My 1950's grade school in Wisconsin had 6 classrooms for grades K through 5. There were 6 teachers and zero staff. The 5th grade teacher was also the principal.

There were music and physical education teachers who visited every other day. The janitor was part time.

There was no hot lunch. Everyone brought a lunch from home. The lucky ones had a thermos bottle in their lunch bucket. White milk was one cent, chocolate milk was 2 cents for half a pint.

[hal ogen]

It is just more of the socialist “make-work” jobs. We were in Bejing, China, a while ago. When it snowed, thousands of people with brooms appeared out of nowhere and started sweeping the sidewalks and streets. I asked an english-speaking resident why they didn’t have snowplows and blowers. He said “But where would all these people work?”

[IamConservative]

Part of this caused by the decreasing amount of time parents actually spend raising their own children. Schools have early drop off, breakfast, lunch, after school, summer lunch, extra-curricular activities out the wazoo. Too much of what schools do anymore has nothing to do with education. It’s more like day camp.

[Daffynition]

Let's hear it for the dedicated teachers!
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