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To: David Jones who wrote (9138)	2/20/2003 8:18:49 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

Couldn't be one administrator for every four teachers. If the excess administration causes a lot of paperwork , that is waste than can be removed. But assuming there actually IS one admin for four teachers... we currently have class sizes at 35 students. I know, I did some volunteer teaching in 2000. Imagine a tech manager managing 35 employees, ridiculous. Now imagine 35 screaming kids. It was a ZOO. Anyway lets say there are 30 students/class to be on the conservative side. That is 120 students for four teachers currently- you say add another administrator, bring that admin down to teacher level and you'd STILL have 120/5 = 24 students per teacher which is about 1/3 more than is effective if you ask me. Imagine 3 teachers teaching over 100 students in math, social studies and english. That was the experience I had a few years ago. The math subject alone had students at any range from those that couldn't even add fractions, to those that were ready for trigonometry and algebra (this was 8th grade). There simply is too much material for 3 teachers to do a decent job. Not to mention all the other subjects they were supposed to teach.

To: David Jones who wrote (9138)	2/21/2003 12:42:12 AM
From: marcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

>>blame real estate for educational problems in Calif<< Woah, David...to borrow a phrase from the respected Zeev--are you reading challenged?-g- I am not blaming anything for educational problems in California. Never said that. What I said is that the real estate lobby and associates are much more powerful than teacher unions. I don't pretend to know how the real estate lobby affects public education. If teacher unions are so powerful, why does California rank 29th out of our 50 glorious states in funding? And why is California $700 per student below the national average for educational funding? By the way, do you know of any California public school administrator represented by a teachers union? The teacher unions agree with you that there are too many administrators. Hey, maybe those inept teachers unions aren't so scary after all!-g- To bring this back to the thread's topic, could you suggest how the California real estate lobby influences public education?