Our Schools Very Inefficient

[Anonymous]

Been working for LCPS for several months now and seeing all kinds of inefficiencies. School system this big needs leadership that has the experience to handle masses of students.

[Anonymous]

Examples?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Examples?

I agree on asking for examples- but is this a surprise? Yes, they can be inefficient.

[Anonymous]

Children are inefficient by nature.

[Anonymous]

Examples: no working photocopier for a school of 1500 for the bulk of two days. Manual taking of roll. Should be done by scanning. Record-keeping/checking done manually. This should all be available electronically. Reports that can be computer generated and are instead done manually. Five different ways to get kids to school and home. More and more time spent on useless PD and meetings.

[Anonymous]

All of those items you think should be done electronically rather than manually require a capital investment through all of the schools to implement. I don't know the state of LCPS finances, but I'd be careful about assuming it can be done without coming at the expense of something more important to education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All of those items you think should be done electronically rather than manually require a capital investment through all of the schools to implement. I don't know the state of LCPS finances, but I'd be careful about assuming it can be done without coming at the expense of something more important to education.

No, duh. We need visionaries at the helm, not country bumpkins.

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Anonymous wrote:All of those items you think should be done electronically rather than manually require a capital investment through all of the schools to implement. I don't know the state of LCPS finances, but I'd be careful about assuming it can be done without coming at the expense of something more important to education.

No, duh. We need visionaries at the helm, not country bumpkins.

You can have great leadership, but if the money isn't there to implement the vision, there's not much you can do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Examples: no working photocopier for a school of 1500 for the bulk of two days. Manual taking of roll. Should be done by scanning. Record-keeping/checking done manually. This should all be available electronically. Reports that can be computer generated and are instead done manually. Five different ways to get kids to school and home. More and more time spent on useless PD and meetings.

What do you think should have been done differently with the photocopier?

[Anonymous]

I am on Day 3 of useless PDs. All I want is a few straight hours in my classroom. No, I do not need to hear about the district's "new" initiatives because they aren't new. Same thing from 4 years ago with a different name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am on Day 3 of useless PDs. All I want is a few straight hours in my classroom. No, I do not need to hear about the district's "new" initiatives because they aren't new. Same thing from 4 years ago with a different name.

And everything is required with no additional planning time given. Half of it I could've done watching a video on YouTube and not wasting time on stupid ice breakers and other gimmicky activities. LET US TEACH and leave us ALONE!!

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Anonymous wrote:Examples: no working photocopier for a school of 1500 for the bulk of two days. Manual taking of roll. Should be done by scanning. Record-keeping/checking done manually. This should all be available electronically. Reports that can be computer generated and are instead done manually. Five different ways to get kids to school and home. More and more time spent on useless PD and meetings.

What do you think should have been done differently with the photocopier?

This has Got to be a school board member asking such a stupid question.

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Anonymous wrote:Examples: no working photocopier for a school of 1500 for the bulk of two days. Manual taking of roll. Should be done by scanning. Record-keeping/checking done manually. This should all be available electronically. Reports that can be computer generated and are instead done manually. Five different ways to get kids to school and home. More and more time spent on useless PD and meetings.

What do you think should have been done differently with the photocopier?

This has Got to be a school board member asking such a stupid question.

Nope, not a school board member. It's a serious question. Did the copier break down or was there some other problem? If it did break down, when was the service company contacted? Why did it take them two days to come out and fix it? What would it take for the school to get a quicker response from the service company?

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Anonymous wrote:Examples: no working photocopier for a school of 1500 for the bulk of two days. Manual taking of roll. Should be done by scanning. Record-keeping/checking done manually. This should all be available electronically. Reports that can be computer generated and are instead done manually. Five different ways to get kids to school and home. More and more time spent on useless PD and meetings.

What do you think should have been done differently with the photocopier?

This has Got to be a school board member asking such a stupid question.

Nope, not a school board member. It's a serious question. Did the copier break down or was there some other problem? If it did break down, when was the service company contacted? Why did it take them two days to come out and fix it? What would it take for the school to get a quicker response from the service company?

Principal too busy directing the car line and other bogus stuff like adding layers of requirements and not helping teachers. School has huge turnover in staff.

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Anonymous wrote:Examples: no working photocopier for a school of 1500 for the bulk of two days. Manual taking of roll. Should be done by scanning. Record-keeping/checking done manually. This should all be available electronically. Reports that can be computer generated and are instead done manually. Five different ways to get kids to school and home. More and more time spent on useless PD and meetings.

What do you think should have been done differently with the photocopier?

This has Got to be a school board member asking such a stupid question.

Nope, not a school board member. It's a serious question. Did the copier break down or was there some other problem? If it did break down, when was the service company contacted? Why did it take them two days to come out and fix it? What would it take for the school to get a quicker response from the service company?

Principal too busy directing the car line and other bogus stuff like adding layers of requirements and not helping teachers. School has huge turnover in staff.

NP here, not the PP to whom you're responding, but...
So you think the principal should have been on the phone to a photocopier service vendor? Seriously? That's a job for an administrative assistant to do. The principal should be highly visible to students in the first days of school, not stuck in the office fretting over the copier.

OP, you sound so negative here at the start of the school year, I can't see you feeling any differently as the school year progresses. Maybe consider a change in careers or schools. But you are going to find inefficiencies everywhere, even at "wealthy" private schools. I do get the frustration, but can you derive no pleasure at all from helping kids despite imperfect resources? If not, maybe a school setting just isn't for you.