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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am also not buying a microphone and speaker for my class and figuring out how to rig that up with a mask on-just stop. I'm done with the expectation that teachers sacrifice money, time, their health, basic necessities like bathroom breaks-it's enough already. We need to stop coming to the rescue and let people see [b]what their taxes actually fund.[/b] Period.[/quote]

What DO our taxes actually fund? Because, as far as I know, there are a LOT of dollars that go into education. I would love to know why those dollars aren't working effectively and efficiently. [/quote]
Off the top of my head? Bus contracts (gas, renting or purchasing of buses, maintenance and repair, insurance, driver salaries), cafeteria (supplies, maintenance and repairs, the food itself-my district offers free lunch and breakfast to all students, cafeteria staff), janitorial contracts (staff and salary, cleaning supplies, overtime), heating/electricity/water/internet bills for the school buildings, support staff (front office, paraprofessionals), assistant principal(s) salary, principal salary, superintendent salary, deputy superintendent salary, teachers salaries, professional development, curriculum materials and curriculum training. Notice how quickly those things add up? This tally doesn't include a single classroom supply. 
The people at the top make big salaries, too-many of them over $200,000 a year. THAT is the problem. Those people are not interested in education, by and large. Many of the administrators that I know spent very little time-sometimes just a single year-in the classroom. They don't interact with the kids, and they don't add value to our institutions. [/quote]

Interesting, and thank you for taking the time to respond.

Genuinely curious - and let me couch this question by saying I think anyone making $200k who can't make the amount of $$ flowing into education work should be fired yesterday - do you think that redefining administrators' salaries will really fill the gaps that you are talking about? Or is there a complete system overhaul that is necessary? What would that look like, in practice?

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