Raise Teacher Salaries, Fire the Rest

This idea is genious. The idea to get rid of supporting administrative staff is long overdue. Many schools are creating more and more of these types of positions such as secretary to the assistant principal or receptionist to the counselor. The point of a school is to educate and it is now being run like a business. There are hired, paid positions in charge of managing money and the childrens attendance and test scores. There are faculty members who go from room to room to collect information from the teachers instead of having the teachers bring it themselves. Not only is this a waste of money, not to mention space as each on of these 'administrative' positions is usually granted an office, but it frustrates the teachers. They should be valued as the most important part of the school system but instead they are considered to be beneath anyone hired as administration. They have to take orders from so many people and need permission from each of them to do things. I beleive that many public schools should start doing this same thing, get rid of the administrative staff and let the teachers get a raise and some dignity and the teacher shortage will end quickly.