You have 20 principals in the Floyd County School System making over $1,966,000. That is an average of $98,000 person. You have two making over $111,000 per year and one of them has worked in the system less than 10 years.

You have 27 Asst Principals making $1,986378. This is an average of $73,569 per person. So we are spending $3,952,619 on admins alone. If you did away with just one asst principal for each high school & middle school you would save $588,552 per year.

How many more teachers could be hired with this money? I would really like to see a breakdown of the positions that were cut from the new budget.

The sad thing is how low the pay is for some of the teachers & para-pro's that work with most challenging students.

@Don'tBanMe,Bro!: It's really sad that you base your perspective of public education and all teachers in general on a specific situation from 10 years ago. In any profession or occupation, there may be those who aren't the best representatives, however, it is wrong to assume that all teachers are the same. Floyd county and Rome City have some great teachers, who work very hard to insure that every student achieves success. As far as teachers reaping the benefits of having summers off; that statement is always made by people not in education. Most teachers I know attend workshops, teach and administer make-up standardized tests, or teach summer school - not too mention planning and developing lessons for the upcoming year. Being home-schooled may be the best situation for your son and of course he should excel - he is receiving one on one, individualized instruction - something that is difficult to achieve with a classroom of 25 to 30 students. You didn't mention who his teacher is, but if it is you, based on what you mentioned about working at Fairbanks, I can't help but wonder if your level of education is enough to prepare him for the advanced placement courses and exams that public high school students take to gain college credit or to make a high score on the SAT or ACT- since he could run circles around our best students. I can assure you that teachers are not baby-sitters or daycare workers and although the physical labor may not compare to being a laborer in a factory, it is still work. And the hours are not just 8 to 3 either. I wonder how many nights and weekends or days off that you take home work from your job or how many days you go in early or miss your lunch because a student or coworker needs help. I think if you spent one day in a teacher's shoes having the same responsibilities and issues, then you might be qualified to pass judgement about what teachers really do. That offer to take a teacher's job in a heartbeat might not seem to appealing after doing real work in a public education system.

The plight of teachers is that they could say that here we are once full of hope, led by the incompetent, with reduced resources, to do the impossible for the ungratful who are sometimes ignorant, arrogant and rude.

as many of us have discussed over the years...how much money do the idiots think they spend in the month of August for airconditioning??? The hottest month of the year. THERE is your problem. How many teachers would it pay for the A/C cost alone? If school was started AFTER Labor Day like it used to be, and go into June a little, it would substantially save MUCH needed money for teachers.

go to this web site and you can see what anyone who works for any education system in the state makes.

http://www.open.georgia.gov/sta/viewMain.aud

After administrators already cut it to the bone.

I would like to know how many of the 35 positions that were cut are administrative. Each school is "top heavy" with too many "Chiefs" and not enough "Indians".

By doing away with just one administrative position at each school would save the school system quite a lot.

Imagine that! A publicly funded institution having to try to save money or "tighten their belt"