Cutting education funding can’t occur “away from the classroom.” It is simply naive to believe that paper-pushing bureaucrats are going to make sure our students aren’t affected. If you cut classroom aides, P.E. teachers, and clerical staff, it directly impacts the classroom.
A school is a community that relies on all of its people to keep it running. Cutting P.E. staff has put me and my colleagues into the position of teaching yet another class and eliminating all of our prep time.
As for classroom aides, I wouldn’t know what one looked like unless you pointed them out. I have been teaching low-level fifth graders for eight years and have yet to see one in my classroom.
The loss of clerical staff just means more of the paperwork duties will fall to the other staff (teachers!) or simply be neglected because of more pressing issues that assault a school office.
So the teachers will bear more and more of the burden and more and more of the blame when students are uneducated.
“Cuts away from the classroom?” What a monumental joke.
