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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't care if my child is in a portable but it shows how over capacity the school is. It shows poor planning on the part of MoCo as a whole. [b]They are resourced (admin wise) for a specific amount of children and they are obviously understaffed and it is more obvious by how much by how many portables there are.[/b]

Besides, our schools are like little cities anyway.. which I hate.

There are the rich kids with tutors in the AP/honors classes (away from the rifraf). There is the middle "class" in normal classes. So you might as well have a trail park to round out the imagery. [/quote]

Portables are a question of building capacity. They don't have anything to do with staffing.

Also, there are rich kids in portables. [/quote]

[b]They do not hire more admin staff to support the extra kids "in the school".[/b]

Imagery and reality are two different things... I get they don't put poor kids in portables ... you actually have to make a leap to inference to understand the comment. [/quote]

So when enrollment goes from 600 in the building to 900 in the building plus portables, the school doesn't get any more administrative staff? I find this extremely hard to believe.[/quote]

We have the same 2 people in our office staff.  The same nurse tech, the same one person per special (media, art, PE, music)  So no, there are no changes.  The paraeducators may work 1 hour more to cover all the lunches/recesses.  Oh but have gotten 2 more ESOL teachers to make 3.  Go figure.  [/quote]

Yeah, this PP is completely incorrect...but is probably also confusing administrative staffing (which is fixed, regardless of school size), and professional and supporting services staff (which is based on enrollment).  All ESs have one principal and almost all also have an assistant principal (the very smallest do not have an AP).  The three largest ESs have an assistant school administrator, which is like an AP that works 11 months instead of 12.

All ESs, regardless of size, have a full time administrative secretary and a full time attendance secretary, and a full time health tech.  The staffing for classroom teachers, arts teachers, paraeducators/lunch recess aides, is all based on enrollment numbers, so the PP is completely wrong that if a school's population increases by 50% there won't be additional arts teachers.  There are staffing ratios used by human resources and principals are given their staffing allocations every spring.[/quote]

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