Posted: 7/27/2010 8:11:21 AM EDT
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So this school district when i live has laid off a bunch of teachers, and doubles class size. But some how they came up with the money to hire another assistant superintendent. Just what they need, more wasteful chiefs and less Indians. http://www.vvdailypress.com/news/position-20734-assistant-superintendent.html The decision was presented as a "revenue-neutral” one that will not cost the cash-strapped district any extra funds: In other words, the job’s pay would not change. But it will still cost almost as much as three starting teachers’ salaries to fill: A starting director makes $112,581, according to the HUSD, while a first-year credentialed teacher (based on their last approved contract) makes $43,275. |
| A local school district around here keeps doing the same thing. It's ridiculous. Another one has transferred an assistant principal from one end of the county to the other to hide the fact that she's exchanged "inappropriate emails" with male students, instead of firing her like they should (they don't need her, and they should be saving money). I'll see if I can find her picture, I hear she's pretty hot (~25 years old, I have no idea how she's an administrator already). |
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A local school district around here keeps doing the same thing. It's ridiculous. Another one has transferred an assistant principal from one end of the county to the other to hide the fact that she's exchanged "inappropriate emails" with male students, instead of firing her like they should (they don't need her, and they should be saving money). I'll see if I can find her picture, I hear she's pretty hot (~25 years old, I have no idea how she's an administrator already). I do. |
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School Administrations do not know how to spend money except like a drunken sailor on shore leave.
Like petulant children who were told no, they will stomp their feet and pout (meaning that they will try to make you feel guilty for your decision). Classroom size is red herring because until the classroom get well North of 30 kids, there is little evidence that smaller classrooms (18-22) produce better students than larger classrooms (28-35). You either have to get classrooms of 12 or less students or classrooms of approaching 40 students before you see any change in their test scores, either up or down. The wife of an old co-worker is a part-time reading disadvantaged teacher in the Chester, PA school district. When she first come on, as a newly minded teacher with a Masters, her salary was $61,000/yr. She now makes $67,000/yr, as a part-time teacher. She is also the Union rep at the school. I do not think that the American public, by and large, really know just how wasteful institutions are with their tax dollars. |