One step in the right direction.
In 59 Philadelphia voting divisions, Mitt Romney got zero votes
karma’s a b*tch, ain’t it?
That’s a good place to cut. Classroom teachers are the productive workforce of the school. Secretaries and Asst Principals are far less productive, and one AP makes as much as several secretaries. The Principal will be much busier without APs, and he’ll have to make decisions quicker and sometimes without letting the aggrieved parent of a bully or cheater talk himself out, but I think this will save a lot of money at a minimal educational cost in the short term. In the long term, they’ll have to hire or promote principals who have no AP experience, but that just means raiding their neighbors.
Useless eaters...
The best course of action would be to shut them down and fire all their employees.
When I was in school the assistant principal was in charge of discipline. If that is still the case, then this sends the wrong message.
While I hate to see anyone lose their job, fine by me. How is it that Catholic schools can operate on far less $$s than public schools ? I don’t have it at hand but remembering reading an article in IIRC a St. Louis newspaper some years ago in which the Catholic schools were operating on far less a budget that the public schools and with better test and graduation results - one reason was because of the cost of all the Ass’t Admins at public schools. Businesses have had to trim down the past few years; and, public orgs, such as schools and all the alphabet orgs in DC and states spending our money should as well.
BUT DON’T TOUCH THOSE PENSIONS!
Back in the day, we didn’t have assistant principals. We didn’t have teacher aides for every classroom, well, we flat didn’t have aides. Teachers had 40 students per classroom. But then we got to meet the “board” of education when we acted out and dad’s belt when we got home that day so we behaved and didn’t have to get duct taped to our desks. We took care of our textbooks so they could be used year after year. We took care of our school supplies, too. I still had my box of crayons labled Room 4-B to pass down to my kids. We also didn’t have million dollar baseball fields to tax the heck out of the parents.
At first glance I thought the headline was “Every Asshat Principal...”
I like it. It means there are fewer propagandists to indoctrinate the children.
What does an Assistant Principal do, anyway?
Deport the illegal aliens. They don’t pay incomes taxes to the State, live many to a household so there is less property taxes paid per person, etc.
Philadelphia schools are at the point of needing Marine squads to enforce a modicum of discipline and order in them.
Blackboard jungle, indeed.