How would it affect you if a Senate Bill divides aps.gov into smaller schools districts?
Senate Bill 89 dreams of breaking aps into three smaller districts.Saying 40,000 students is the dividing line, someone thinks our reputation of being the bottom 50 yet one of the largest districts in the USA, would make management better. k12Niche.com says aps is number 31 not the largest school district which initially brings to mind point one: why don't the other schools such as Los Angeles or Chicago push for cutting themselves in half?
Smaller rarely means better. There are few studies to prove that a class size of 10 is better than 17 but certainly 21 is better than 35. We reminisce to the 1960's when our kindergarten class was a full day and a full group of little snot nosed, curious 5 year olds. But things were different then. There were no identified special needs. There were no TA's or aides, except for the occasional parent that would help out, and we sat still. Most of the time. I am not saying we weren't Attention Deficit or unique, but I also know they placed Down's kids, auditory impaired and others somewhere else. It wasn't until 1975 that kids were no longer called retarded and instead called handicapped and disabled.
Bureaucracy is often imagined as a "too big" concept but I believe that it exists in small forms and big forms. To tear something apart in the public sector often takes large machinery. In businesses, it is a different story. Usually a corporate take over will re-brand things, dismantle and sell or throw away old technology and move on. There exists in Albuquerque sectors of affluent, middle class, and migratory. By dividing the area up, there is no way to not punish the poor for simply not being able to live in the rich sector. I would doubt few will bus or petition to attend a West Mesa or South Valley school but I would think this split will further encourage serious parents to move the already lucrative public charter schools. "Government organizations, such as the IRS, and major corporations, such as PepsiCo, are examples ofbureaucracy. A bureaucracy is any complex organization in which there is a clearly defined hierarchy of top-down authority and specialized departments that make up parts of a whole."
The only problem is, with smaller organizations often one looses the janitor or the audiologist or the PE teacher only. Everyone has to assume the small jobs and sometimes that overwhelms some workers. Teachers. So smaller is not always better.
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