OK.
You gotta admit, 16 pupils per active teacher is pretty nice. Yet from their own information there are about 1150 certified teachers employed in the system, of which, by your info (which really sounds about right) only 40 % are actually teaching.
So it requires 468 teachers to do the work equivalent of 300!
That means 60% of those certified are not teaching; put another way each teacher doing the deed has 1.5 teachers in administrative roles. Somehow, that doesn’t make me feel much better.
Way too many chiefs for even this overpopulation of braves! I think one more school is in the system, which is the Alternative school operating right behind Eighth Street Middle School.
Thanks for the info.
Folks, consider yourselves lucky !
Here in Houston we have THREE non-teaching HISD employees for every real classroom teacher.
I could care less whether they’re “certified”, or what “educational support role” they purportedly fill, the fact is they’re f’n PARASITES who obstruct actual education. They’re generally paid 2X to 4X the salary of a real classroom teacher - and don’t deliver 1/20th of the value, if not actually being COUNTERPRODUCTIVE.
Reform education ? Start by firing ALL the administrators and 90% of any other non-teaching staff.