If you’ve ever watched “The Bear,” you know the moment. The tickets start piling up. The kitchen gets loud. Everyone is moving fast, but not always in the same direction.
What separates chaos from a functioning kitchen isn’t effort; it’s clarity—what stays on the menu, and what gets cut because the system can’t sustain it. Sounds like the modern school system, right?
This is the point in the year when next year’s budget stops being theoretical. Adjustments to staffing, downsizing, and in some cases, upsizing, are happening now.