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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What you really need to look at is teachers/teacher's aides that have students assigned to their classes.  FCPS loves to claim that 90+% of the budget goes directly to schools, but there are a lot of positions in schools anymore that do have have classroom responsibilities.  Those are the positions that the county could cut back on if they were looking to trim back.  Examples (Extra Assistant Principals, SOSAs, Deans, Special Ed Department Chairs, Resource teachers, etc.)[/quote]

Respectfully I couldn’t disagree more. You’re drawing to straight of a line and thinking you’re trimming fat when in reality you’re actually adding more problem to the classroom teachers plate.

Take “extra” AP’s for instance, where you see waste I see someone who can now tackle behavioral concerns that impact my classroom environment. Insubordination has steadily risen in the last 5 years, without administrators the task of sorting out the issue falls squarely on me.

Or SpEd department chairs? When done correctly that job pays dividends in spades for the entire building, helps SpEd teachers find some semblance of balance, correctly supports the proper placement of students into the LRE. It’s by no means an easy job, I actually think it probably involves more work than most positions in the building. As a tired and over worked SpEd teacher I laughed when someone suggested I apply for the role in my building, it’s maybe the only gig that makes SpEd teachers go, “I guess it could be worse…”

My point is that it’s so quick and easy (and apparently in fashion) to blame all of the problems at the feet of “waste”. People are obsessed with the false idea that there’s just tons of jobs of lazy people collecting paychecks. I don’t know what that’s about but in 15 years of my educational career I’ve yet to actually come across a job that’s actually not necessary. Have I met people who suck at their jobs? Sure, but that’s a human condition, not an occupational one. [/quote]

+1000 Say it louder for the people in the back!!!
Our sped dept chair is invaluable. Cutting them would just mean more work for an already overworked team. [/quote]

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