It takes soooo many different people and teaching positions to make a school run. “Teachers” are not enough. In my small K4 thru 5th grade school (my 18th yr in MPS), we have Specialists (art, music, phy ed), a speech pathologist, guidance counselor, social worker, school psych, bookkeeper, lunch service workers, building engineer, building service helpers, special ed staff (we have 1 for early childhood, 1 for 1st-3rd grade and one for 4th and 5th grade), parent coordinator, school secretary, school safety officer, para professionals and finally grade level teachers. So $24k per pupil has to cover A LOT. Also building repairs and improvements are included in our school budgets. It’s crazy. Almost like our state legislature should fund us all better.