Milwaukee has 82,000 schoolkids and 5,400 teachers. That works out to 15.18 kids per teacher.
Florida class sizes cannot exceed the following:
Elementary 18 kids per teacher
Middle School 22 kids per teacher
High School 25 kids per teacher.
It appears that not only are the Milwaukee teacher salary and benefits bloated, it also seems they are very underworked.
Surprise—surprise
I went to Whittier Elementary School in Toledo Ohio in the 50’s. We had 30 to 35 kids per class. These teachers have no idea what “hard work” really is.
Cripes, I taught third grade at a Catholic elementary school and had 30 kids in my classroom...and all did very well thanks, in part, to the parents giving a damn about their kids’ education...
Actually, a lot of those “teachers” aren’t.
They hide their bloated payrolls by calling people “teachers” who actually do something else.
Here in Houston there are 2.6 OTHER employees for every classroom teacher. If there are 25 kids in a class, it takes 8511 teachers. But HISD CLAIMS to have 12,829 “teachers” and 3,799 “teaching assistants/clerks/aides”.
If that’s true, EVERY classroom would have TWO teachers in it. Or, each teacher would have a class of 12 students.
It’s BS. Their bloated bureaucracy is where the money is and where the people are. Fire 80% of them.