To: marsh2
Could she leave California? Sounds like her talent is needed.
What burns me the most about school budgets is that the average ratio of teachers to administrators in the American public school system is 1 to 1. Seems like the bureaucracy budget is the one to cut.
(As a side note: Several years ago the National Science Foundation gave the D.C. public school system a major grant. Turns out they used the grant for limousine services for their administrators.)
I truly believe alot of this budget cutting is a scam. The demorats and the NEA screw the kids instead of their own, cry and moan look what is happening to our children, taxes get raised, and the wheel keeps turning. Makes me sick.
58 posted on
04/06/2003 6:50:16 PM PDT by
lizma
To: lizma
The problem will never be fixed until the NEA power is broken. You are so right about admin:teachers ratios. 30 years ago local schools had a nurse, but she also had to teach health, and had a principal and vice principal, but both taught full loads. Everyone else was a full-time teacher (even every coach). The only others working in the school were a couple of maintenance workers/janitors and the cooks. And these including even the larger high schools of over 1500 students.
The districts had a couple of rented rooms in a building downtown, and only a couple of full-time positions.
Now, go to your local larer schools and you will see dozens of non-teaching administrators in the school (my old school now has a day-care center with staff, numerous mental health care workers, and even "diversity integrators." Our local school district has a huge wonderful new building--the size of a large high school--for the the dozens and dozens of district administration office workers.
Man...what a waste.
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