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I'm just a layman, but I wonder if that sort of ability from a n administrator is exactly the sort of thing that would be less likely to happen with larger and

• emn13 12y ago
  If you're swamped by your administrative duties, you're unlikely to find the time + energy for the kind of initiatives described here. Getting rid of the "overhead" is a cop-out. With fewer (administrative) people, you're going to get less administration done - people aren't going to magically do more work. If you can pinpoint those tasks that are relatively unnecessary, you're got a real contribution to make. However, that's often surprisingly tricky, which is why in all kinds of cost-cutting debates people pretend theres this "overhead" that's nicely pre-categorized and ready to cut. If only it really were that simple.
• NoMoreNicksLeft 12y ago
  Not necessarily. To some extent the administrator for an even larger school district/unit is there because of their excellent bullshitting skills. The laughable part is that the goals that the administration pursues are, at best, tangential to the goals that everyone else has for school systems. They want their children to have an adequate education... but the principal made sure no one was laid off, and that morale was good among the employees.