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Maybe I'm out of touch here but what support staff do teachers need when they're teaching remotely? I'd imagine a few administrative staff, maybe some counselor
by bradlys 6y ago
Maybe I'm out of touch here but what support staff do teachers need when they're teaching remotely? I'd imagine a few administrative staff, maybe some counselors, and that's about it? Maybe I'm completely out of touch since I went to such a poor school that we couldn't even afford 5 days a week (I know a little something about budget cuts).
Janitors, cooks, nurses, even certain types of teachers that rely on in-person instruction (gym, woodshop, metals, etc.), facilities workers, and more are all not particularly needed when online only.
- npunt 6y agoTrue, they're also not needed as much in the summer. Question is how quickly should we dismantle our institutions, and what are the long term costs of that? Were schools better funded, they would be able to absorb some disruptions in the world without immediately falling apart. If we build our core institutions of society on a kind of just-in-time efficiency economic model, they become weak and fragile, and getting back to prior operational capacity takes years. The long term costs of that in general outweigh the short term savings. Education's ROI is $7+ for every $1 invested, but for a variety of cultural and legal reasons it is chronically underfunded. https://www.impact.upenn.edu/our-analysis/opportunities-to-achieve-impact/early-childhood-toolkit/why-invest/what-is-the-return-on-investment/ https://www.impact.upenn.edu/our-analysis/opportunities-to-a...