Elementary Principal
1. List the types of funds used within your school district. Which fund is largest? List an example of a revenue and an expense associated with each fund.
2. Identify the Fund, Function, andObject for the following (use Redbook codes): You should provide the narrative descriptions (i.e. special revenue, instruction, and salary), not the number.
Fund Function Object Description
A $2,000 computer to be used by the school principal to monitor school attendance
An overhead projector to be used in a wood shop class.
A $75 word processing program for the school psychologist’s laptop computer to help with generating reports.
A contract with a provider of Occupational/Physical Therapy services for special education students.
The cost of electricity used by the school’s cafeteria.
A $3,000 laptop computer for a construction foreman
The cost of a “study console (furniture)” for special education students purchased from the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) entitlement grant ($500).
3. Every district has some method for determining where resources are assigned (teachers, aides, counselors, school office personnel, etc). This may be referred to Resource Allocation. Explain how your local school district allocates instructional, instructional support, and school administration resources to the school centers in your district. This response will take several paragraphs. How does the principal know how many teachers, aides, counselors, APs, etc. will be allocated/assigned to their school center. Is the formula based upon students, FTE?? Does the district require a certain %age of costs be assigned to instruction (teachers), as opposed to instructional support or school administration? The student MUST outline their district’s allocation FORMULA to receive credit for this item.
4. For your district, discuss the EMPLOYER incurred costs of Variable and Fixed Benefits. What specific benefits are included in each type?
5. For your district, what is the average salary and benefits for each of the following positions:
• Classroom Teacher
• Elementary Principal
• Guidance Counselor
uld be no trust that people are obeying rules if the comman man would just make decisions that allowed any kind of violations of law or cheating for sake of maximising good.
Bernard Williams argued consequentialism required impartiality which focuses on consequences of action and this requirement deprives an individual of their own integrity because the concept of utilitarianism doesn’t differentiate in a person themselves bringing about an outcome vs someone else producing an outcome.
Practically rule consequentialism proves to maximise utility in situations such as traffic rules. It would be safer if everyone followed rules like ‘no drunk driving or speed limit.’ Hence its safer to follow rule utility over act utility in such cases. Act utility would give room for individuals to determine the best action.
A rule based system leads to greater overall utility because people are capable of having bad judgement. Having specific rules to follow maximizes utility by not relying on the drivers’ judgments that could possibly endanger others or themselves too. For instance, based on an individual drivers’ judgements not following the road stop signs over some emergency could endanger many. The stop sign would distinctly set the rule and tell drivers to stop and does not allow them to calculate whether it would be better to stop or not.
Rule consequentialism avoids criticisms of act consequentialism. According to critics, act consequentialism approves of actions that can be wrong, undermine justice, undermine basic trust among people, and its demanding because it requires people to make sacrifices.
Rule consequentialists avoids underming trust because they do not evaluate individual actions separately and instead support rules that maximize utility.
Many of the rules would maximize utility. For example, rules that clearly distinguish the right and wrong in medical practice where doctors would clearly not be allowed to use one healthy patients organs to save five other patient lives, even if saving five patients results in maximum good. Else no one would trust doctors or the benefits of medical treatment.
In defence of rule utility, Brak Hooker pointed out the different contexts in wh