Since 1970, the public school workforce has roughly doubled—to 6.4 million from 3.3 million—and two-thirds of those new hires are teachers or teachers' aides.
I wonder how many of those teachers are actually in the classroom. How many teachers aides did they have in 1970? Biggest thing that needs to be done for almost all public school systems is review how many administrators they have and get rid of the excess number, it will make balancing the budget much easier.
Add in all the social workers, speech therapists, psychologists, special needs teachers, etc. and it’s not hard to figure out why it averages $12,000 per student.
Myself, I think the best thing that could be done for American education is to utterly abolish all these degrees in “education,” and make sure that a teacher teaching English, for example, knows the use of English - vocabulary, syntax, and grammar.
But, yes, the proliferation of bureaucrats - i.e., characters who know absolutely nothing about anything except how to trip up others for not observing an encyclopedia of rules - is a horrendous problem not only in education, but throughout society.
Agreed. Getting rid of one administrator equals cutting 2-3 teachers.
But every teacher in a “rubber room” should be terminated immediately.
Hello,
“The Cartel” is an excellent documentary on the very subject you reference: