…You may get it.
Guilford County Schools surveyed employees for budget-cutting ideas, and employees said cut central office:
Cutting administrators is a no-brainer, even from outside the school system, but the suggestion carries more weight from teachers and principals, who understand what all those people in Guilford County Schools’ administration buildings actually do, or are supposed to do.
The central office’s welter of curriculum facilitators, instructional improvement officers and the like has been incomprehensible to civilians for years. The teacher comments make clear that many teachers think many of the administrators at the North Eugene Street headquarters, the English Street administration building in High Point and the school system’s other hidey-holes for people who don’t actually teach are less than necessary.
The system’s $457 million construction program came under fire, with one employee suggesting they “(f)orget about designing each new school as a monument to one architect’s ego, each one grander than the last.” Amen.
