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seems Mrs. Massie interpreted this to mean that teachers didn’t work hard enough, or lacked dedication. While that could be true in individual cases, that was not my thrust. It was about efficiency.
An efficient engine is one that reduces the amount of fuel needed to do a given amount of work, through more complete combustion, reduced friction and so forth. A school is a kind of complex engine for doing work, even if the measure of that work includes many intangibles (and passing SOLS being the concrete measure). Its fuels are money and staff time. And there are all kinds of friction that reduce work efficiency and wear down the engine-broken Xerox machines, useless meetings, poor communication, duplicated efforts, fatigue, and so forth.
Encourage
suggestions
Most businesses have suggestion boxes for employees to offer ideas about how to save money or improve the way things function. Does the School Board or Superintendent encourage custodial staff, administrators, teachers and students to make suggestions to “reduce friction” and “save fuel?” Such a move would not only show taxpayers that the school is trying hard to function frugally, but'it creates a useful, if not revolutionary, mind set among students and adults alike. Our general culture is all about spending money, not saving it. Tb consume is to be patriotic.
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