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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
If some of the issues are:
- more schools needed (costs money)
- more teachers needed for those new schools (costs money)
- support staff for the new schools (costs money)
How do you suggest those issues get resolved without more money. |
More schools aren't needed.
The location of the current schools is not ideal and requires the bussing of children to schools with space in them.
More teachers could easily be added and I would definately support that. One thing I think the CBE could do significantly better is reducing their overhead. I don't have the stat handy but half of their staff aren't teachers and compared to the Catholic board it was a really high ratio of support to teachers. They need to do a better job in this area.
A teacher probably costs somewhere around 120k per year so adding 1000 more teachers which is about a 3% increase would only cost 120 million and would likely reduce class size by about 1 student a class at a cost of about $30 a per citizen or $100 per family. I think keeping capital costs down by using existing resources and bussing and increasing teacher numbers is a good solution.