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In the pluralistic West public education has always been a cultural and political hot potato, simply because there is no consensus on what values it should inculcate in the students. Conservatives don't want their children to be curious, questioning life-long learners; they prefer that schools teach respect for conventional authority and unthinking allegiance to their parents' ideas. More cosmopolitan parents want their kids to fulfil themselves in their own unique way, and explore virtually any aspect of history and culture. The religious abhor the teaching of evolution and sexual education, while the liberals object to school prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance. In the background opportunistic politicians are waiting to jump on any hot button issue they can exploit as false defenders of virtue.

At the center of these conflicting forces stands the educational administrator, whether he or she works in the administrative bureaucracy or is a secondary or elementary principal. The job has many practical requirements, but it is essentially political. On the one side the administrato

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ason that they show that whoever wrote it had no idea what education in my sense is all about. It is a kind of pathetic bureaucratic speech asserting what an administrator should embody, care about, and feel, just as a young Boy Scout is required to claim that he is 'trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, clean and reverent'. Apart from its style of expression, it reflects magical thinking that has nothing to do with the realities that school principals face. First of all, the board of education or the school superintendent generally allocates scare resources to schools around the district with little say from a local principal. And due to a chronic shortage of funds, there is very little discretionary spending that a principal can do on a pet educational project, since there is rarely enough for books, equipment, maintenance, repairs, and other educational expenses. To use the phrase 'economic systems' is totally inappropriate jargon. Is the administrator being urged to overthrow the capitalist system? Or use a private investment account to raise money for his school? Not likely, but that's the implication of these poorly chosen words. And how can money be used to protect student rights
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