Defunding Children, A National Crisis of the Soul | Making American schools less great again

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/04/18/defunding-children-national-crisis-soul

It's no secret that poor student engagement leads to poor student outcomes. It's no secret that huge class sizes lead to poor student engagement. It's no secret that staff layoffs lead to huge class sizes. It's no secret that budget cuts lead to staff layoffs. Yet somehow, teachers are expected to manage with less and less, squeezed professionally as more responsiblities are heaped on, resources taken away, and personal financial shortfalls keep piling up. Of course throwing more money at a problem won't fix it, we're told so often, yet it seems like when taking away the money can be directly traced to causing the problem, it's odd to try and act like it's got nothing to do with it. Schools don't need to be where we employ cutthroat budgeting tactics to "spur efficient innovation" or whatever middle-management nonsense is the borderline-abusive management style du jour; schools are thorougly human and need to be run like it, and you can't do that by treating it like an assembly line for students that will just evolve to do without.

Submitted April 19, 2019 at 12:54AM by Nekoronomicon http://bit.ly/2UL3bAL