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Our ES has 2 Assistant principals. That’s $300K in waste in one ES.

One ES has 3 principals total. That’s $500K in salaries just in the front office. Such redundancy. This is what people really need to be complaining about. This is tax payer money not going to direct education.

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What an ignorant quote. Assistant Principals perform the vital work of maintaining discipline, supervision and at the Elementary level handling all testing. They often divide responsibilities by grade level or content so they are not redundant positions. They hire the teachers and evaluate them. Principals are responsible for the big picture and budget items but the AP's do a lot of the day to day work that families would see. If you have kids in the schools, you know the AP's are the ones that are calling with the issues and handling your emails and requests. They also work 11-12 month contracts as opposed to the 10 month teacher contracts which often accounts for the salary difference.

The amount of AP's is dictated by the size of the population of the school. so each AP is responsible for dealing with hundreds of families and dozens of teachers. And they are not new positions, they have been around since I attended FCPS in the 80's. But people couldn't spout off nonsense about them on anonymous forums and call their work "wastes" in the past.[/quote]

So it sounds like you are saying the true wastes of tax dollars are the principals. Sounds good to me. We could be saving even more money since big-picture thinkers are great and all, but isn't that what the external executive team is charged with? Regardless, it sounds like there is waste and inefficiency there, the Principal should be doing more of these tasks that you describe. You have described to me a figurehead, the Principal, or as you have described, Queen or King of the School really shouldn't be a thing. Not during this time when the quality of our children's educations is struggling to such a large degree.

As so many have described our schools are in such bad shape, so much so, that you knock the hiring of a salaried executive employee, who serves the entire school system as being wasteful. It's one salary. There are hundreds of redundancies to be eliminated.

We are in dire straights, the sky is falling, our schools are failing, our infrastructure is crumbling, and at the top, of each of these individual wastelands sits a little King and or Queen consuming a lion's share of the fat, and cake, as their castles (school buildings) crumble around, with multiple APs to do what should/could be their jobs. If you must keep your highly paid Principals, then why do we have APs getting paid to do admin work? Or what sounds like traffic cop work? Not to mention the front offices full of desk admins. The admins have admins and admins. Why, in the age of technology, are there so many admin positions?  This is asinine. The waste is there, it's right there. Such redundancy in what is essentially middle management.

I'm with you kill the goose already and start with the bloated admin that exists in the actual schools themselves, shrink the front office footprint, add a few classrooms while you are at it, expand the lunchroom and or the playgrounds, and then when you are finished there move on to the admin that is Gatehouse if you must. But seems to me there are 28 big-picture thinkers who are charged with overseeing this mess, maybe we should make it 29 and hire a Chief Efficiency and Anti-Waste Expert. To start getting rid of all of the essentially as you have described highly compensated clerical and traffic cop positions. [/quote]

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