The hidden education tradeoff: tax cuts now or real economic growth in the future

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3. Just this week

a substitute in the building listened to me rant about our clunky electronic grade book's bugs and malfunctions, and said, "We should go back to writing grades down in a grade book." I looked at him and said, "Do you want to come in at the end of the term to crunch an entire semesters grades by hand for all 100 students?"

"Oh," he said.

That got me to thinking; we have all of these technologies that make tasks faster and easier...why is there not more time? Yes, the job is always changing and evolving to some degree, but why is there never enough time to get the job done in a contractual work day?

Because we get more new things added to our daily duties every year, and we take on more tasks that others used to do, and higher class sizes, because there isn't enough money to staff schools adequately.