In budget meetings trustees tend to dehumanize teachers by looking at them as FTEs (full-time equivalents) instead of as flesh-and-blood people doing impossibly difficult jobs, a transformation that makes it easier to talk about reducing their number. So I created a model to try to humanize the FTE by looking at the number of hours a teacher needs to work to meet all her responsibilities in one specific school. Despite deep misgivings, I shared this model with the head of school, who misused it with disastrous results. Yet I continue to believe that this model can help trustees understand what teachers do and can improve equity in work loads and morale in schools.