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Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95

From	"hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
Date	2015-09-03 06:24 +1000
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"Scott Lurndal" <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote in message 
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> jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
>>Stephen Sprunk wrote:
>>> On 01-Sep-15 07:50, jmfbahciv wrote:
>>>> Peter Flass wrote:
>>>>> The attacks are because of the perception that these are cadillac
>>>>> schools, but often the money goes to everything but education.
>>>>> Sports and activities are important, but they should not drain
>>>>> money away from instruction.
>>>>>
>>>> One school district here laid off 100 teachers.  In addition, 300
>>>> administrators could be laid off because they had no work to do with
>>>> the 100 teachers gone.  That's where the money is getting wasted.
>>>
>>> Don't forget that each of those administrators is probably making 2-3
>>> times as much as the teachers.
>>>
>>> Why not just lay off the administrators (and get 70-90% of the cost
>>> savings) and keep the teachers?
>>
>>The teachers were let go because there weren't enough kids.
>>
>>What I'd like to know is what kinds of work did those admins do?
>>They had to have been bored out of their minds.
>>
>
> Always better to argue from facts rather than suppositions.
>
> It's a constant mantra about too many admins, but nobody actually
> has posted any facts (i.e. real numbers).
>
> An example california school district (16 elementaries, 3 intermediates) 
> has 600
> teachers and 11,000 students.   To manage this, they have 22
> administrators.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Grove_School_District_%28San_Jose,_California%29

Pity about the individuals who are doing the office paperwork
in the schools and who don’t do any teaching at all.

And with the top table, most of those would have office staff too.

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Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Alan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca> - 2015-08-28 12:26 -0400
  Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2015-08-28 13:34 -0500
  Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-28 13:16 -0700
    Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-08-30 20:00 -0500
      Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-31 14:48 +0000
        Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-08-31 13:30 -0500
        Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-09-01 12:50 +0000
          Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-09-01 11:07 -0500
            Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-01 18:49 +0000
            Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-09-02 12:41 +0000
              Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-09-02 13:54 +0000
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-09-02 09:41 -0500
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-09-02 15:41 +0000
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-09-02 11:05 -0700
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-09-02 18:32 +0000
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-09-02 22:39 -0700
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-09-03 16:38 +0000
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2015-09-03 21:35 +0100
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 lawrence@cluon.com - 2015-09-02 21:07 +0200
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2015-09-02 15:52 -0500
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-09-03 11:05 +0200
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2015-09-03 15:37 -0500
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-09-09 14:59 -0500
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-09-09 13:21 -0700
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-09-10 00:04 -0500
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-09-09 14:38 -0500
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-09-09 16:40 -0500
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-09-09 17:19 -0500
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-09-02 21:08 +0200
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-09-04 13:01 -0500
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-09-02 11:01 -0700
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-09-03 06:04 +1000
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-02 16:30 +0000
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-09-03 06:24 +1000
          Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-09-02 10:09 -0700
            Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-09-02 17:21 +0000
              Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-02 19:12 +0000
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-09-03 10:51 +0200
              Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2015-09-02 16:02 -0500
            Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-09-03 05:47 +1000
  Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-28 21:37 +0000
    Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-08-30 18:06 -0500
      Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2015-08-30 18:49 -0500
        Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-08-30 19:49 -0500
          Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2015-08-31 09:16 -0500
            Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-08-31 11:25 -0500
              Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2015-08-31 23:10 -0500
                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-09-01 11:12 -0500

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