cevans_40 said:
aggie93 said:
SouthTex99 said:
It's cheaper to pay a great superintendent a big salary than a bad superintendent a low salary. Much cheaper.
Lol, sure thing. My fav is the Lake Travis guy making over $400k. There is one HS in Lake Travis and he has a Principal. So what exactly does he do that creates so much value?
I mean it's all good I guess but just don't tell me about how teachers are underpaid. The only time I have really heard from our Super in the last year or two is when he was complaining about anything around vouchers or how we needed to give them more money. Pretty clear as to why.
Oh, and my HS spends well below the average for Texas per pupil and the least of the 6 schools in our District yet we dominate in academics and sports and virtually every EC activity. The idea that money creates better schools is such a joke.
You are right. People create better schools. And if you want better people, you have to pay better money. Ultimately the ceiling is set by the students and their parents but the floor can most definitely be raised with better people running the district.
No carry on with your regularly scheduled bashing of anything related to public education.
Yes, that is why Washington DC and Baltimore spend more than anyone and have such great schools.
There really is no correlation to money spent and quality of schools. Parental participation and the attitude of the students is 100x more important and it has nothing to do with money. You also don't get the best teachers with money. You get the best teachers by creating an environment that they want to work in. That means good students to want to learn and the ability to challenge them. That means taking care of disciplinary issues with students who are troublemakers.
Hey but keep saying we just need to write bigger checks and it will solve all of our problems though, especially for Superinendents that are often just political animals. I'm not saying money has no impact, it absolutely does. It's just that money without the above is usually setting it on fire and benefiting someone besides the students.
Also, school districts can pay people what they want. My only issue actually comes in when you have schools that are on the receiving end of Robin Hood money. If you are getting money from other schools then you should also lose some of your ability to spend it as you wish. Not that that is ever going to happen. Most people have taken very little time to actually understand why schools succeed or fail or they simply don't want to face hard facts because they are often uncomfortable. It's so much easier to "rely on experts" or write a check (especially with someone elses money).