Just being snarky but how many people from SPS work at the state level?
Because Seattle Public School District leaks money like a sieve.
Also, why do we pay administrators 100K+ a year to be bureaucrats? I would be more comfortable paying a teacher 100K a year, especially ones who can teach math, successfully, at the k-6 level.
Overpaid paper pushers and underpaid teachers, that's fucked up.
@1: I don't teach in Seattle, so I can't speak to that, but I CAN tell you that if you switched administrator's and teacher's salaries, no one would ever be an administrator. If it's done right, it's an insanely difficult and almost always unrewarding job (as opposed to teaching, which is difficult but at least sometimes rewarding). I wouldn't do it if I were paid a bajillion dollars a year.
(That said, I would like to be paid a little more to teach. Not a lot. Just, like, 10k a year more. That would be cool.)
Because Seattle Public School District leaks money like a sieve.
Also, why do we pay administrators 100K+ a year to be bureaucrats? I would be more comfortable paying a teacher 100K a year, especially ones who can teach math, successfully, at the k-6 level.
Overpaid paper pushers and underpaid teachers, that's fucked up.
(That said, I would like to be paid a little more to teach. Not a lot. Just, like, 10k a year more. That would be cool.)
problem solved the American way!
Maybe we just are tossing it down the old rat hole, especially the $8,000,000,000 we spend on the state colleges.
... and yeah, I do know about many of the services cut because of unions bribing the politicians ...