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Originally Posted by Pete
Teachers - the ones who get the axe first.
The largest employer in our county after the military is the Cumberland County Public School system with just under 7,000 employees. With a school population of around 53,000 that works out to one employee for every 7.57 students.
With classroom sizes at 14 or more at least 50% of the employees do not work as teachers. The school system calls that 50% staff & support.
Yet every time the school system does not get it's DEMANDED money it lays off the teachers. So parents raise hell, the money is raised and the system hires one more teacher and one more "support & staff".
Maybe if the taxpayers would starve the beast and force it to fire some "support & staff" they could put more money into teachers and the classrooms.
Starve the Beast
When the High Sheriff of Cumberland County does not get his DEMANDED budget he layes of the school crossing guards - nothing else just the guards - and the first day of school the parents raise hell and the Sheriff gets his money for the SWAT team.
Starve the Beast.
And don't get me started on busing - for that you need to follow the Wake County Circus.
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I need to type this very quietly as my housemate's closest friends and SO work in public education and I almost got my head ripped off for offering the following POV. (This isn't to say that the people who heard this disagreed in principle, but that they understood the implications WRT their union.)
IMO, the first thing that needs to be done is to find ways to evaluate teachers for their effectiveness at teaching rather than seniority, the ability to pass the buck, and political gamesmanship.