Maybe Johnny Can’t Read Because These Workers Crowd Out Teachers

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Heritage Foundation:

Half of America’s public school employees aren’t classroom teachers, according to a new study. Instead, they’re non-teaching personnel such as instructional aides, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, secretaries, and librarians.

 

It hasn’t always been this way.

 

The study from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a nonprofit think tank specializing in education policy, found that the number of non-teaching staff grew by 130 percent from 1970 to 2010. Their salaries and benefits account for one-quarter of current education spending.

 

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I think Johnny can't read because his parents don't care and let someone else handle it without being involved.

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I think Johnny can't read because his parents don't care and let someone else handle it without being involved.

There was a big to do here last spring about a bunch of third graders that were going to be held back because they couldn't read, parents raising holy hell, ended up failing on about 200 of the kids out of about 1,500, saw parents on TV screaming they need to go to 4th grade, reading isn't that important. They even turned down free reading tutoring for their kids. Amazing how many parents are not interested in their child's education

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I think Johnny can't read because his parents don't care and let someone else handle it without being involved.

There was a big to do here last spring about a bunch of third graders that were going to be held back because they couldn't read, parents raising holy hell, ended up failing on about 200 of the kids out of about 1,500, saw parents on TV screaming they need to go to 4th grade, reading isn't that important. They even turned down free reading tutoring for their kids. Amazing how many parents are not interested in their child's education

 

 

Idiots! Reading is the backbone of everything else in learning!!!

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I think Johnny can't read because his parents don't care and let someone else handle it without being involved.

There was a big to do here last spring about a bunch of third graders that were going to be held back because they couldn't read, parents raising holy hell, ended up failing on about 200 of the kids out of about 1,500, saw parents on TV screaming they need to go to 4th grade, reading isn't that important. They even turned down free reading tutoring for their kids. Amazing how many parents are not interested in their child's education

 

 

Idiots! Reading is the backbone of everything else in learning!!!

 

 

 

Your tax money at work.

 

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Half of All School District Employees Aren’t Teachers
Jon Gabriel
August 22, 2014

 

Whenever parents are unhappy with America’s education system, politicians and professionals have one answer. Whether the complaint is dropping test scores, overcrowded classrooms, or the gelatinous sludge passed off as meatloaf, sophisticates promoting the status quo all say the same thing: “Give us more money.”

 

Every election cycle, the usual suspects beg voters to support new borrowing and/or raise taxes. Campaign signs show frowning kids and concerned teachers, beseeching civic-minded passers-by to dig a little deeper. If elections required truth in advertising, the signs instead might feature palatial school district office buildings and bleachers filled with bureaucrats and overpaid contractors.

 

A new study shows that the number of non-teachers on U.S. school payrolls has soared. Since 1970, non-teaching staff grew by 130%, while the number of teachers only grew 54%. Over that same time period, student enrollment increased by a mere 8.6%.

 

The report, produced by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, shines a light on that forgotten group of public education professionals they call “the Hidden Half.” The title reveals a little-known truth: 50% of all staff employed by school districts aren’t even teachers.

 

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