How to succeed as a teacher - Final part

There has to be a better way.
There is, but administrators don’t want to know, and in a system with basically no competition you don’t have to work well. (private schools really aren’t a big competitor to the public one. It’s like saying “Joe’s search engine” is a competitor to “google”). The principal of my school didn’t seem too impressed when the superitendent visited my classroom because of good reports that travelled back to her. The principal had no idea what was going on in my classroom.

Whenever problems crop up in a school system, let’s just remember that they are not new. Somewhere some school has solved this problem. Rather than setting up a committee, or experimenting with some unproven system, just find out how someone else has dealt with the problem. It involves asking for help (some people don’t like to do this) and it involves not coming up with the solution yourself. Some people need to feel as though they really ’solved’ a big problem.

One teacher put it like this: “The people in this town stayed in this town because they are losers. You are an outsider. There is nothing a loser fears more than an outsider because they might bring in change.“