Written by Remember the good old days when schools were filled with a bunch of students, a good number of teachers, and a few administrators?
Nowadays, it seems most schools are filled with fewer students, about the same number of teachers, and an exorbitant number of administrators.
Education in 21st century America is less about teaching and more about administering it would seem.
Take Marion City Schools, for example.
It’s spending nearly twice as much on administrative staff expenses than it is on instructional staff expenses.
I guess it isn’t any wonder why the district recently announced that it will be laying some folks off in an effort to get its finances in order.
Well, when you hire nearly 80 more people between 2023 and 2024 and spend nearly three quarters of a million more on administration, yeah, you’re probably going to have to make some cuts.
The district’s 2025 financial audit hasn’t been released yet, but it should be coming any day now. We’ll have to see how much worse things have become.