Financing construction projects - Enough equity?

I am of the opinion that schools need a managing director and an IT department. But these must be salespeople and IT specialists. Not teachers.

Managing director as a businessperson or, worse yet, a business administration expert? Hardly. You can hire one for the secretariat, that’s enough.

Where your approach has led in the medical field, we can currently see very clearly.

Schools and their leadership need their own budgets, leadership time (max. 4 hours of teaching to stay connected to the basics), freedom to organize (independent of state and municipality) and indeed, their own IT specialists on site and networked, but independent from the school authorities. Then the basics like the network can be expanded even before 2023.

The shortage situation is not a result of unwillingness, but (financially / personnel-wise) inability. Moreover, the education system was already running at its limits since Corona – there is not enough staff (educators and teachers) to cover even the basics. The fantasies here that they could quickly handle the school kitchen and school IT are completely unrealistic dreams. Teachers are already being pulled away from grammar schools to have at least somewhat enough staff at elementary schools.

Yes, I agree that schools should have received more funds by now. Oh wait, they have... Digitalpakt Schule

You should have had civics classes at school. A budget item is absolutely useless. There were also November aid payments.. Schools have nothing to do with the Digitalpakt. School authorities do. You could ask a few districts about their planning capacities to carry out all the (ignored for decades) school digitizations. Particularly interesting – elementary schools in the digital & flat no-man's land where even broadband expansion has not yet arrived.

Managing director as a businessman or worse, a business economist?

But that's exactly what I mean. Of course, as a team with an educator, so that it is not viewed too commercially, but rather keeps teaching and people in mind.

A principal usually has budget and logistics problems to solve. Classrooms, utilization, subsidies, repairs, organization of school operations, implementation of directives from the Ministry of Education, QM, etc.

What qualifies a teacher for that? At most personal interest. Definitely nothing from their studies. These are all problems from business administration.

But that's exactly what I mean. Of course, as a team with an educator, so that it isn't viewed too commercially, but teaching and people remain the focus.

A principal usually has budget and logistics problems to solve. Classrooms, capacity utilization, funding, repairs, organization of school operations, implementation of directives from the Ministry of Education, QM, etc.

What qualifies a teacher for that? At most personal interest. Certainly nothing from their studies. These are all problems from business administration.

You described it well – the business administrator is the assistant who can schedule rooms as a dispatcher, coordinate the management’s requirements with the janitor, takes sick notes early in the morning and implements substitute planning, can probably also book school trips cheaply, etc. Would certainly be great to have and much more practical than the usual PowerPoint nonsense, good use as an admin.

But that definitely does not entitle one to a “management claim” and a dry seat right at the front, because strangely enough, you don’t “learn” all that in your studies (business administration = manager??). Although I don’t want to say that every school management is suitable for what they do. But, as is well known, not every manager in business is either...

BTW: School management is now also a possible master’s degree.

Is this a joke or what? All parents' initiatives were blocked. Because of data protection and so on. And yet learning communities were formed. For example, because of children with migration backgrounds whose parents hardly speak German. Despite Corona! Because it was forbidden!

By whom were "parents' initiatives" blocked?

I even had a corresponding subject. It wasn’t called that, but that doesn’t matter. It was said that there are no funds to acquire equipment. That’s what it was referring to. My "higher authorities" were also referring to the fact that teachers and schools are not largely responsible for the justified criticism.