the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, according to Corey DeAngelis Director of School Choice, Reason Foundation; Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute , School support staff has grown 2.7 times as fast as students since 1990 in public schools has grown 2.7 times as fast as students since 1990.
Students: + 23%
Support staff: + 61%
Per pupil spending: + 39%
Maybe this is why our schools are failing?
It’s simple. America has been de-industrialized by our enlightened elites for over 40 years. 2 generations of Americans have organized their studies with the expectation that engineering and other “physical science” career paths will be in decline. What’s left is services industry.
The services industry has been stretched by leaps and bounds by millions of college grads. Many grads ended up without traditional career options and had to create practically new industries to get employed.
One such industry is a professional school admin. No one really knows what they do. But with dual career parents refusing to raise healthy, productive kids, schools have hired them anyway. Partly performing a role previously done by parents, partly finding new things to do, otherwise unemployable college grads found their niche.
2 points here:
1) ppl have bills to pay and if there is no legitimate need for their skills, they’ll find other ways to make us pay them. So stop voting in politicians who offshore our jobs abroad.
2) The admins made themselves indispensable in the eyes of schools and colleges only because parents refuse to raise their kids. Essentially we’ve delegated our responsibilities to these admins. If you don’t want to pay for them, go back to parenting.
Ignore this real problem and just focus on freaking out over coronavirus.