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The recent economic reports were somewhat knocked back a bit by slowed employment growth. The leading factor in employment slowing was cutbacks by school districts due to budget crises.
Wheil there is usually a lot of fat to trim in school admnistration, it seems that teachers is the last place we want to be cutting back. I worry about the future of our country if they cannot figure out how to adequately fund the schools. (I would like to seem them eliminate all the layers of cirriculum directors and others whose job it is to make sure education programs fit an agenda and instead focus on pletiful good teachers, but I know that is not going to happen, so the cuts worry me a great deal.)
Anyone heard any positive solutions that may stem the tide of cuts, or is this likely to continue to grow as a problem?
I believe it will continue until private enterprise takes over education much like they are doing in Detroit with the EAA and have done in New Orleans after Katrina.
The recent economic reports were somewhat knocked back a bit by slowed employment growth. The leading factor in employment slowing was cutbacks by school districts due to budget crises.
Wheil there is usually a lot of fat to trim in school admnistration, it seems that teachers is the last place we want to be cutting back. I worry about the future of our country if they cannot figure out how to adequately fund the schools. (I would like to seem them eliminate all the layers of cirriculum directors and others whose job it is to make sure education programs fit an agenda and instead focus on pletiful good teachers, but I know that is not going to happen, so the cuts worry me a great deal.)
Anyone heard any positive solutions that may stem the tide of cuts, or is this likely to continue to grow as a problem?
i saw on cnn or msnbc one or the other a report the other night out of york county, pa and i think one entire congressional district that said the state is slashing edu spending by the billions and in the end is going to result in something like 45:1 classroom student teacher ratios. i've taught a class of 38 once a few years back and that was with "honors" level kids and it was still a task. can't imagine 45 of the rougher kids in one single classroom and whats gonna happen.
I believe it will continue until private enterprise takes over education much like they are doing in Detroit with the EAA and have done in New Orleans after Katrina.
The private enterprise takeovers in those two cities, though, have seem to have led to even greater education cutbacks in spending and number of jobs. (Although at least for New Orleans it is hard to tell, since each of the 40+ charter schools keeps its own books there.)
i saw on cnn or msnbc one or the other a report the other night out of york county, pa and i think one entire congressional district that said the state is slashing edu spending by the billions and in the end is going to result in something like 45:1 classroom student teacher ratios. i've taught a class of 38 once a few years back and that was with "honors" level kids and it was still a task. can't imagine 45 of the rougher kids in one single classroom and whats gonna happen.
My first year teaching nearly 20 years ago, I taught a class of 40...it was glorified crowd-control. Very little authentic learning actually took place. Thank goodness my biggest class since has been 31, with most of them 25 today.
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