|  12-28-2010, 01:59 PM | #4116 | 
	| Registered User 
				 
				Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: The Duchy of Penske 
					Posts: 2,088
				      | 
				
				Re: A little Christmas present for Penske
			 
 
	Quote: 
	
		| 
					Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy  Give me a school system and make me king, and I'd make two changes overnight:  (1) Every administrator has to teach. Administration is a part-time job, and we need fewer of them, not more. No exceptions. (2) Mix up the size of classes.  Stick a kid in a 100 person lecture class for three hours and a 10-12 person seminar for another three hours, instead of putting them in 30 hour classes for 6 hours. 
 As to the school principal, I'd have every principal teach two classes, on the subject of their choice: one to incoming freshmen, in the smallest seminars possible, one to exiting seniors, same deal.  Job #1 is to know the kids.
 |  I think you underestimate the need for administration, although I agree with putting them in classrooms at regular intervals.
				__________________Man I smashed it like an Idaho potato!
 | 
	|   |  |