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Originally Posted by opendoor
I suppose it's because there are a ton of employees that aren't teachers that are still necessary to run a school. Principals and other administrators, educational assistants, secretaries, building maintenance workers, IT staff, bus drivers, etc. Not to mention the cost of supplies, textbooks, sporting equipment, computers, and a bunch of other things.
All told, the average in Canada is about 70% of education funding going to staff wages.
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My questions really is why is that so high.
The administration side of things should be no more onerous then a private company. Computeres most business will average 1 per employee so that is likely higher in schools.
How many computers are schools running these day 1 per 10 students??
Textbooks are quite costly but really if a textbook is used for 10 years at $100 per book and 10 texts per year it really only is about $2500 per classroom or 1% of the cost of education.
If 70% of funding is going to staff wages an teachers make up only about half of that amount I think you have a pretty large problem there.
Overhead should maybe be 10% of staff. Of course you need to factor in the teaching assistants and put them into the teachers numbers and take a look but at a high level it seems the overhead staff is way too high.