I feel as a blog-writer, even though not seriously, it's my responsibility to bring in outside opinions and also respond to my readers (even if the pool of them is small).
After my first phase of "Are Faleing Educashion" someone responded that failing schools are a result of poor leadership (aka, they have a principal who loves their 100,000 salary, but not their responsibilities). I don't disagree with this statement; I feel anything that is poorly led lacks the ambition to produce successful results. However, the "blame game" is what perpetuates all problems, especially that in education.
Teachers are blaming para-educators for taking their students out of the classroom for one-on-one time, paras are blaming the teachers for not being flexible or having conducive-to-learning structure in their classroom, principals are blaming vice principals for not providing secure discipline among the students...and on..and on...and on.. The blame game is never ending, and it solves nothing.
Good God, Help us, we've lost our integrity. It has gone to the wolves, and we are allowing students to fail because we are too complacent to hold ourselves accountable.
As an adult, why should I perform only under close monitoring of a supervisor? We are all given job descriptions, contracts (more than likely), and missions; it is our responsibility to ensure that we do our part, on an individual level, to contribute to the greater mission. It is when we hold ourselves accountable that the mountainous achievement gap will start to erode.
My part is small, your part is small, even the greatest leader's part is small, but when we all simultaneously do our parts, things change, and change is good; more importantly, change is needed.
It's not a leader that needs to be found, it's the integrity of the people that needs to be re-established.
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