I live in a county with two high schools along with the feeder middle and elementary schools. They also have a large office building full of administrators. I feel anger as I pass it each day with its large parking lot full of shiny cars.
I too subscribe to the thought that the more non-teaching employees the poorer the education level. Let the teachers teach. Get out of their way!
Teachers all across the country are hugely demoralized. These vast top heavy administrations all need something to do and frequently visit classrooms to make sure teachers are doing the latest fad.
Teachers are leaving the profession in droves. My sister tells me every week how many have quit at her school starting shortly after the new school year started. Contracts are usually late getting g sent to teachers and they get signed in August or September. Then a couple months later the teacher says “I can’t take this sh!t any longer…I QUIT!”
Normally you’d expect teachers to switch to another school, but many, if not most, are leaving teaching altogether. And it is frequently the new teachers who have been working less than five years who leave the profession. Imagine all the time and schooling you have invested only to flush that all career development away after being in the real world only a couple years! It is that bad.
The worst thing I’d the huge top heavy administrations blame all these problems on the teachers themselves.