Quote Originally Posted by techinspector1 View Post
J, I'm not in agreement that there is a funding problem. I have two friends who are teachers and they tell me that the bulk of the money is going to the administrators who are feather-bedded in the system. The fat-cat paper-shufflers who are drawing 6-figure salaries. One of them told me that there is one administrator for each three teachers. Does anyone besides me see anything wrong with this arrangement?
Here in Florida classes are overcrowded and facilities have to be almost falling down before any money gets spent on them. Supplies are so scarce that many of us frequently buy paper, pencils, etc. for our students with our own money (pretty tough sometimes on what we're paid). At my school we have a principal, two assistants and two deans. We have 80 teachers and 1400 students. Our bald-faced lying sack-of-$h!t governor pushed through a tax cut last year with a promise that he would "hold education harmless". When the revenues started to drop, guess what was the first thing to get cut? Now that Florida is in the throes of the recession (some of the worst in the nation), revenues keep dropping and the state keeps cutting education funding. Teachers & staff are being laid off, facilities closed, activities curtailed, and class sizes are growing (because of fewer teachers on the payroll). Meantime, we are expected to do the same job with more students and less resources and still maintain the same student success rate...