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View submission: The Mental Gymnastics is Infuriating
I’m solidly blue and vote that way. That said, when conducting my doctoral research, I found that the average U.S. school district spends way more on administration than Finland or South Korea. We would benefit from cutting a lot of central office administration in individual districts. But that money is local. Discontinuing the US Dept of Ed is the wrong move.
Comment by mrsyanke at 09/03/2025 at 00:37 UTC
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I’m curious what the behavioral and/or SpEd average of US schools are compared to those. Because at my school, we have quite a few admin (we’re a big school) and they’re constantly busy dealing with behavior students, meeting with counselors and parents for IEPs, doing classroom observations, and attending meetings on legal requirements of schools to ensure we’re in compliance on things. Our VPs split up compliance duties, one is the go-to for school safety (fire/intruder drills and OSHA), while another is the lead for SpEd, and another on Title III and immigrant rights, and another on Title I and McKinney-Vento, and another on Athletics and Title IX… From the outside looking in, it would be easier to say that our principal, five vice principals, and handful of other admin positions are ‘bloat’ but they are constantly busy supporting our school and our students.