my name is helen archer. i have two children at the district. a junior at george washington high, and another elsewhere. i have served on the pta. i am not an educator, but i am an experienced administrator in nonprofit health care, and i think one of the challenges we have is to stop trying to solve our new problems with old solutions. cutting teacher fte's is an old solution to our new normal. i'd like to say a few things. instead oflo

my name is helen archer. i have two children at the district. a junior at george washington high, and another elsewhere. i have served on the pta. i am not an educator, but i am an experienced administrator in nonprofit health care, and i think one of the challenges we have is to stop trying to solve our new problems with old solutions. cutting teacher fte's is an old solution to our new normal. i'd like to say a few things. instead of looking at sheer numbers, i would recommend the process to eliminate ineffective we have many young, capable educators who are being laid off and we are retaining people that you would be embarrassed to be employ. you could ask any parent and they would be able to give you the names. i recommend a performance management program that works. we know from the statistics that it doesn't, the one you have now. the second thing is that central office reduction should take precedence over cutting classroom resources and to continue to focus on the classroom resources is an error in judgment, in my opinion. and lastly, we