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I knew a teacher in Austin who was paying for school supplies out of her own (underpaid) pockets. And I remember seeing statistics that there were more non-teaching staff than teachers in the district. Time to google...

The school district employs 12,183 people. Of these, 6079 are teachers (that is less than half). Now look at the reductions:

• Total reduction: 484.7 total positions (FTE)
• Teacher positions: 381.2
• Teacher "scheduling efficiencies": 40
• Non-teaching staff: 63.5

In other words, teachers are 49.8% of the staff, but 86.9% of the reductions.

What they ought to do is fire 450 administrators.

P.S. I found this and I thought it was funny. Here's a webpage from THIS teacher's school district: http://www.austinisd.org/inside/technology/webteam/guidelines03.phtml

"While you may be doing your web page development on either a PC or Mac computer platform, your web pages will be accessed from a Linux server."

I guess the teacher ought to report the Network Admin to her school superintendent! Shameful! ;-)

But if you feel strongly about this, the only e-mail I could find on the web-site was

Ombudsman@austinisd.org

If you feel compelled to respond, please be polite. You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.

I found something a little closer. A google search for "AISD Karen Middle School" revealed two candidates:

Karen Schipper, Kealing Middle School (read full comment before clicking: contact)

Karen Greathouse, Small Middle School (read full comment before clicking: contact)

Then again, It might not be either... And even if it is, it's probably be best to use the email provided above...

And as others said, be polite.

CAPTACHA: identify

But if you feel strongly about this, the only e-mail I could find on the web-site was

Ombudsman@austinisd.org

If you feel compelled to respond, please be polite. You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.

I found something a little closer. A google search for "AISD Karen Middle School" revealed two candidates:

Karen Schipper, Kealing Middle School (read full comment before clicking: contact)

Karen Greathouse, Small Middle School (read full comment before clicking: contact)

Then again, It might not be either... And even if it is, it's probably be best to use the email provided above...

And as others said, be polite.

CAPTACHA: identify

http://www.austinisd.org/schools/staff.phtml?teacher=667 Maybe she could use some education herself.

So which Karen is it? Greathouse or Ciesla?