Department of Education

[r14veer]

"I love the poorly educated!" said some guy once. Suburban schools will be fine. Rural and inner city schools will not. This assumes a drastic reduction or elimination of funding, which may or may not actually end up being the case; only time will tell. It may just be re-allocated from a different agency for all I know. But whatever ends up being financially cut (because that is the stated goal) will very disproportionately affect rural and inner city schools. You know, the ones who need it most.

 

[HomeyR]

"I love the poorly educated!" said some guy once. Suburban schools will be fine. Rural and inner city schools will not. This assumes a drastic reduction or elimination of funding, which may or may not actually end up being the case; only time will tell. It may just be re-allocated from a different agency for all I know. But whatever ends up being financially cut (because that is the stated goal) will very disproportionately affect rural and inner city schools. You know, the ones who need it most.

So very true..!

 

[65TPT]

There needs to be less funding to higher education and more to the K-12 level. But I also believe there are a lot of places that have been fattened that are unnecessary.

JCPS used to have 1 AD. Now that it split into two schools all the sudden they need 1 AD for each school, and 3 assistant ADs at each school? Before this year they also had 1 overall AD over both schools. They also have a MS AD stipend at each MS. I understand an AD at each school but why does it take six extra people to do the work that one person used to do? This is my complaint. But then you have rural schools who can't pay their teachers like JCPS so they lose them every year.

I agree with him that there are areas that have been fattened. But I don't agree with cutting it all. I don't think that's the fix.

 

[Veer2Eternity]

There needs to be less funding to higher education and more to the K-12 level. But I also believe there are a lot of places that have been fattened that are unnecessary.

JCPS used to have 1 AD. Now that it split into two schools all the sudden they need 1 AD for each school, and 3 assistant ADs at each school? Before this year they also had 1 overall AD over both schools. They also have a MS AD stipend at each MS. I understand an AD at each school but why does it take six extra people to do the work that one person used to do? This is my complaint. But then you have rural schools who can't pay their teachers like JCPS so they lose them every year.

I agree with him that there are areas that have been fattened. But I don't agree with cutting it all. I don't think that's the fix.

Too many admins!

 

[r14veer]

There needs to be less funding to higher education and more to the K-12 level. But I also believe there are a lot of places that have been fattened that are unnecessary.

JCPS used to have 1 AD. Now that it split into two schools all the sudden they need 1 AD for each school, and 3 assistant ADs at each school? Before this year they also had 1 overall AD over both schools. They also have a MS AD stipend at each MS. I understand an AD at each school but why does it take six extra people to do the work that one person used to do? This is my complaint. But then you have rural schools who can't pay their teachers like JCPS so they lose them every year.

I agree with him that there are areas that have been fattened. But I don't agree with cutting it all. I don't think that's the fix.

I think the first place to start is with upper administration salaries.

 

[r14veer]

Too many admins!

Jinx!