Question: If you are a school administrator, what problems do you face in education? This is for school administrators only. I have a separate Q&A for teachers.\nI am doing a college essay on the education crisis in America.\nCan you please tell me, as a school administrator, what do you see as major problems in our education system? Please address the following issues; No Child Left Behind Act, Teachers, salaries, unions, curriculum, and funding.\nAlso, I would be very interested in what degree you believe parents and students affect the educational process and if you think that you and/or your teachers are restricted by so many laws that you are unable to maintain dicipline in the classrooms.\nIf I have your permission to use you as a reference, please note your name, position, and school district/location.\nThank you all so much!!!

Answer: I just recently changed careers so I am not in education any longer.  However, I do have some insight into your question.  I think the biggest problem is the lack of equity in how money is given out to schools in a given district.  The U.S. Department of Education gives out money based on a formula and the state divvies it out.  \n\nIronically, schools in districts where the poorer kids live have broken down schools with out dated books, doors coming off the hinges, leaky roofs and other conditions that can inhibit a student’s ability to learn.  Then you look at schools in more affluent neighborhoods, and they have schools that look like a castle and have better equipment and supplies.  \n\nWho makes the decisions about what schools get treated better?  Somehow, it makes it hard for a principal to help teachers and students when he isn’t getting a fair share of the pie.  Students in poor districts deserve to learn just as much as the kids in the rich neighborhoods.  But why is there such a difference in the quality of their schools and accompanying supplies?    Until that question is honestly answered, we will forever have a big learning problem in American Education. \n\nThis is what I think based on what I have observed.
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