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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your question about class sizes hits at the heart of APS's resource mismanagement. While our core classes are bursting at the seams (28-32 students in many Algebra 2 and AP History classes), APS continues hiring outside administrators at inflated salaries, claiming they'll fix our system. These expensive hires drain our resources while failing to address fundamental classroom needs.
The Math Is Clear:

Each administrator returned to teaching could create 5-6 new class sections
The salary of one new senior administrator could fund two classroom teaching positions
Just 5 administrators back in classrooms would mean 25-30 additional class sections and smaller class sizes

Real Solutions:

Return qualified Syphax administrators to classroom positions
Stop hiring expensive outside administrators with no connection to our community
Redirect inflated administrative salaries to classroom resources

Before accepting overcrowded classes as "normal," we need to ask why we're paying premium salaries to outside administrators when we need teachers. Our students need educators in classrooms, not more highly-paid bureaucrats in Syphax who don't understand our schools or our community.[/quote]

I think you have a simplistic view of staffing.
5 administrators = 25-30 additional class sections and smaller class sizes.....for whom? which classes? how many classes does each of those 5 administrators teach?
Are they all math teachers? Are they all high school level teachers?

Syphax has absolutely become over-bloated. But administrators are still important.
I agree with reducing the outside "experts" being brought in; but you don't see the irony/circular logic of demanding administrators go back to the classroom and staffing Syphax with internal administrators? Plus, sometimes an outside objective view is important and helpful.

Also, administrators were not necessarily good teachers. Some of them are better being administrators. Unfortunately, some of them aren't even good at that and sometimes certain poor performers just get shuffled around.

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