“you had 30 students ready to enroll on the first day of classes. And say you were given $14,000 per student, so you’d have $420,000 to play around with. You could go for broke and pay a highly qualified teacher a $100,000 salary”
An average class size might be around 16 students nowadays. This requires more teachers and generates more union dues.
There’ll be no gold star for you today.
Did you go to school in the 1960’s?
“Smaller class sizes” translates into “fewer students per teacher”, which correlates to “more teachers per student”.
And, of course, with more teachers, they’ll want more Deputy Junior Assistant Vice-Principals, which leads to more Junior Assistant Vice-Principals, which leads to more Assistant Vice-Principals, and so on...