Quote Originally Posted by Spindrift View Post
That wall of text was a little hard to get through, but I share your hatred of administrative staff. The way I see it is that those kinds of jobs don't hire efficient/qualified people because the pay is so crappy. So the people working those jobs are usually the ones who don't know what they are doing. I have to get on their asses for every little thing here in college, including just making sure a form they asked -me- to sign actually gets to the right person.

Come to think of it, I also can't understand why educational programs in the US are so poor. Other countries do it right when teachers get paid these amazingly high salaries and are revered. The more respected the job is, the better quality will come out of it. If there were stricter restrictions and more qualifications and it paid more, maybe kids in America would actually learn stuff instead of having that 30-40% drop out rate and obsession with themselves. All these people going to school want to be doctors or lawyers and in the end it's pretty rare that I meet any doctor or lawyer that is actually good at their job or know what they are talking about. And of course when budget cuts are enforced educational programs are usually one of the first to go. Society is ridiculous.
Yeah, it was pretty choppy, sorry 'bout that. I agree, there's so much improvement that needs to be done in education. And with administrative staff, I could rant for hours about the mayor of my town, but I'll only say one thing: our town hasn't had a tornado siren since the sixties or seventies. We didn't have one until 2010, yet we have brick sidewalks and all that. I guess the people in charge figure, we'll all die pretty and without a warning.