Yes, for those on the Right, I agree, we don’t need more NEA dues paying teachers that then go to the NEA (similarly, AFT) to then go political against our childrens’ best interest. That said, I think that this Powerline post on Public School Bloat is spot on: Bush’s No Administrator Left Behind Act. Don’t forget, either absolutely idiotic highly paid DIE poo-bahs (or as the Edu-Industrial Complex calls them “Diversity, Equity, and Diversity” “administrators”) that have been hired at a rabbit speed rate makes student achievement increases look like slugs.
Here’s the chart that makes me right:
Yep, those DIE guys and gals are in that 88% increase. And unless you hold that Wokeness IQ is going to make some elementary student smarter in academic rigor, it’s absolutely worthless in being able to quote hundreds or thousands of “preferred pronoun” sets.
Not enough parents are asking the hard questions of “what is the ROI of these slots in terms of achievement vs my taxes?”. They should. No more auto-pilot.
My question, for years when I was on our town’s budget committee, was “what is the ratio of direct to non-direct labor”? How many “heads” that were overhead (administrators, support staff) versus those doing the work that schools are tasked in doing (teachers) in terms of head count? In terms of aggregate costs (salaries and bennies)? Per capita?
Until more parents start asking that AND GETTING ANSWERS, that Admin Staff line isn’t going to decrease any time soon.
