I picked “Shallow Thinking,” rather than “Ignorance” for this piece on the draft report on school consolidation, but I’m not sure that wasn’t a mistake.
Read the relevant portions of what is proposed:
Assertion that consolidation of grade schools with high schools will save money without analysis is not convincing.
Lower administrative costs are predicted from putting high school and elementary into unit districts.
Where is the cost-benefit analysis?
Completely ignored by this Democratic Party-controlled panel is the certainty of increased costs from raising grade school teachers’ salaries to the level of high school teachers.
That’s what my 2011 cost-benefit study of the cost implications of forming a unit school district from Crystal Lake High School and its feeder districts.\ showed.
See the following articles:
Woodstock D200 is an example of the fallacy of consolidation lowering administrative costs.
See Illinois School Report Cards for atats on administrative burden on a per school basis:
Administrators are reported as a function of student enrollment rather than as a function of number or type of schools.
Even new State school funding law sets a ratio of students to administrators “allowed ” per formulaic reimbursements.
That means that there is no possibility of consolidation lowering administrative headcount UNLESS that condition becomes codified into some taxpayer protection legislation.
Yet the ‘products’ of these costly schools get dumber and dumber! But they are well indoctrinated on transgender nonsense and anti-American history!
They can’t read script. They can’t think critically. Their teachers worship Bernie. They are actually encouraged to spit on their grandparents’ values.
The point is: recommendations from this committee simply accomplish the shunting of even larger oceans of cash flow to public school administrators….where by historical example those oceans of ‘other people’s money’ will promptly be spent… Leaving property tax payers exactly where they started: obligated by law to overpay for an inferior product.