Posted on 07/23/2023 10:50:34 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Well, as the old joke about lawyers puts it, “It’s a good start.”
Kevin Haggerty at BizPac Review writes:
Texas’s largest school district aimed to balance the scales amid worsening student enrollment with tough news for hundreds of administrators: “…we’re cutting some of that bloat.”
At the beginning of June, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) took dramatic steps to address a number of problems in the Houston Independent School District (HISD), including the appointment of a new superintendent, Mike Miles. Thursday, he announced his plan to reform the district for the benefit of students with the issuance of 672 pink slips.
Speaking at a virtual forum, Miles revealed that roughly 20 percent of administrative positions were being cut from the district. Between the layoffs and 1,675 vacant positions that were done away with, the total cuts came to 2,347 jobs getting axed.
Note that Houston is the second-fastest growing metro area in the country, and the core city of Houston is suffering no noticeable population loss.
We’re not talking about Youngstown. Enrollment is suffering because parents would rather pay for private school than accept the lousy government school education that costs them nothing. “They can’t even give it away,” applies to a growing percentage of parents.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
There is an old but accurate adage concerning school administrations: “the higher the percentage of non-teaching personnel, the poorer the level of education (or words to that effect)
Get rid of 80% of the administrators. Most of the are dead weight.
What is not noted in this article is the the Houston Scool District has lost 20 to 25,000 students since 2018.
2018 to 2022 -20,000
I cannot find 2023-2024 data. Will keep looking.
Fire all those communists.
Bump that!
No matter which state across this country you live it is most
likely getting inundated by illegals. They cross the border,
board the bus for a free ride to some where internal in the
USA. “Get on the bus and ride Clyde....”
From the article:
“because parents would rather pay for private school than accept the lousy government school education that costs them nothing”
Do parents pay for private school to get away from the public school teachers, or the public school students?
Syphilis Outbreak In Houston: Cases in Women Up 128%
Cara Lynn Shultz
www.yahoo.com/entertainment/syphilis-outbreak-houston-cases-women-143846367.htm, July 17, 2023
Somebodys busy.
I would think that getting their kids away from pathological students is the bigger issue.
The same basic idea could be applied to hospitals. Hospitals today are a magnet for parasite "administrators" and others not even involved in medical care.
Both-and it has been happening in remote rural areas for several years-it really got going during the scamdemic when parents got a look at what kids were being taught-and opted for the local small Christian school or homeschooling-with real academics-instead. Enrollment in this rural school district is way down now, even though there are plenty of families with kids. Many of us operate home-based businesses-so a lot of businesses here have a mom, aunt or other relative homeschooling a kid or two there all week. The older kids help wait on customers, too-I think it is great-there are also better places for our taxes to go than to public schools that are nothing but daycare centers...
You would be surprised at the number of military families homeschooling. Many that have suffered the DOD school system had enough and are homeschooling or joining homeschooling groups.
I can believe that-many of the small business owners out here who are homeschooling are couples who are either both veterans or one of them is-they obviously are not fans of public school. A former teacher started a homeschooling group-2 years now and she has partnered with another retired teacher since the group has grown. The school district got a major smackdown a couple of months ago when their multi-billion bond issue was voted down hard because it was frivolous crap and we all knew it-I’d be delighted to see the district just shut down-there are only 5 schools in it and enrollment is falling...
And getting rid of the libraries. after all, who needs ‘em.
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