re: One of my friends got the schedule for her kid's "virtual learning"

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Using a spreadsheet of employee salaries obtained through a records request, the JPS central office payroll adds up $11,539,999.61 annually. Six employees make more than $100,000 annually, while 29 make at least $70,000 per year or more.



JPS has more than 25,000 students.



For those keeping score at home, that's one central office employee for every 96 students. According to the last available budget from the JPS for the 2018 school year, the system spends only 46.7 percent of its money on instruction.



The JPS was third from the bottom of the state's 147 school districts with half of its schools listed as failing by the MDE in the last accountability grades. JPS has earned a failing grade in the last two evaluations.



The number of central office employees outstrips several other higher performing school districts by a large margin. DeSoto County has just under 34,000 students, yet its central office staff has been cut to about 141 positions. That's about 241 students per administrator.



The district received an A in the last accountability ratings and district officials told Mississippi Matters that the district has a goal of spending 74 percent of its budget on instruction in the upcoming school year after spending 71 percent this past school year.

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I just up our local MS high school...
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72% of students are economically disadvantaged.

WTF?

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There's no point in paying hundreds of teachers in your district for remote learning when a remote curriculum can be administered from far away by people who actually know what they are doing.

If we are going to give our kids a shitty education, we shouldn't be funding a bunch of teachers who aren't actually working - many of them actually fought hard against reopening.

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Yep same here. There were word problems that my son had on his math homework in the 2nd grade in which you would need to solve for x using basic algebra. Keep in mind, this is the 2nd grade.

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you know how the Old Fashioned way of doing things is usually the best option?

This is a prime example. Mothers shouldn’t work

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Sounds like plenty of people are going to start demanding return of all tax dollars funding public schools

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I'm really confused.

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Our 2nd grader was suppose to learn cursive last year before the spring semester was basically canceled.

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So, some schools are doing learning exclusively from home to protect the kids and teachers from spreading this thing, and the answer is to put the kids in community centers with other kids and adults to go over the "virtual learning"?

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