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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If people don't want to work with children, they shouldn't have gotten a job with DC public schools. I'm all on board with central office staff working in classrooms. Up to and including the chancellor. [/quote]

You have an office job, right?  If your boss told you that the custodian, or a secretary, or the accountant was out sick and you were going to sub in for them, how would you feel about that?  Would you say that, if you didn't want to do accounting or empty trash cans you should not have taken a job at a company?  Of course not.

To be clear, I am not denigrating teachers or equating their role with that of custodians or accountants (although, their work is pretty damn important, too).  My only point is that your logic is absolutely bonkers.[/quote]

Not really.  If you choose to work in a public school system in central office you should be prepared to be asked to be in a classroom.  This isn’t like we are going around to office buildings demanding secretaries and lawyers come and watch kids.  I actually think if we demanded central office workers spend more time in and in charge of classrooms there would be significantly better policies coming out of there [/quote]

What you don’t understand is that the rank and file central office staff have very little to do with these ham handed decisions. The top people at central do not like their authority questioned and tend to get rid of workers who push back. Yet it is the mid level and lower level folks who will be forced into classrooms while the top people who make these dumb decisions will happily continue to work from home [/quote]

Forced into classrooms?  Give me a break.  For all the work most of these people do, they should be subbing at least 25% of the time in a normal year. Central office has more people who push paper around and pretend to be working than I have ever seen in a school system.  They are bloated. [/quote]

I agree, most central office staff is bloated, that's why getting rid of a lot of them helped the budget. And surprise surprise everything is running the same even with less people...[/quote]

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