On the Way to School-Community Control, Some Observations, excerpt (text)
III-The Transititional Process: Centralization to Local Control
| VARIABLE | FROM: CENTRALIZATION | TO: LOCAL CONTROL |
|---|---|---|
| Principals | Agent of system Teacher control completes forms |
Agent of Local community teacher development Understands function |
| Teachers | Transmits curriculum Advocates of system |
Develops curriculum Advocates of the students |
| Students | Targets of system | Reason for the system’s existence |
| School & Community Delivery Patterns | Separate entitites | Single entities |
| Parents | Spectators and reactors “Trouble-makers” |
Participants and enactors “Constituents” |
| Identity | We - they Their School |
Us “Our” Schools |
| Accountability | To Central Board | To Local Community |
| Goals | Change students | Change society and schools |
| Values | White middle class Double standards Suspend students Punish students to break spirit Prison-inmate |
Humanistic and relevant Responsive and egalitarian Educate students Enable student not to require punishment Person-to person |