1a. I happen to support a small parochial school. It runs K-4 through 8th grade with a grand total of two administrators, one principle and one lady who collects tuition and keeps the books. Oh, the Principal doubles as science teacher two afternoons a week. There are also two part-time clerical workers who split time between the school and the congregation, acting as secretary basically the principal and the pastors.
There are no curriculum advisors, assistant deans of students, compliance managers, etc. The students coming out of this school read and do math at a higher level than those coming out of the local public schools, even when you take the special needs students (which now make up 20% of the population) out of the public school base.
1b. The same way every other industry does: measure the quality and quantity of their output. Is this subject to manipulation, perhaps, but look, it's no secret that my Halloween every teacher in the school knows who the good ones are, who's average, who's just going through the motions, and who's just plain bad at their jobs. The students know too. To pretend that this is an intractable problem is just plain silly. |
