Posted on 08/20/2014 12:33:18 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The ranks of non-teacherssuch as administrators, counselors, teacher aides and cafeteria workershas 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 Dont 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.
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Isn’t it amazing how much more self reliant all previous generations of Americans have been when compared to the current one.
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.
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.
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?”
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.
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