It is a mistake to overlook the fact that America public
schools have for decades, been poorly managed. Few publicly funded institutions
have been run perfectly, to serve and protect the rights and welfare of its
students. The primary problem is how administration is viewed. Private
businesses have owners and managers who must run things with an eye on profit.
Public Administrators are, ideally, managers of tax-funded systems intended to
keep America running smoothly by providing fair practices so all citizens are
included. Ideally, public administrators should be highly ethical efficiency
experts. What actually makes this ideal problematic is the fact that America’s
history began with genocide and then followed up to include slavery.
We have a tendency to accept denial as a way of life.
Essentially, the super status given the killer/enslaver has transformed into
the unaccountable “boss.” The BS factor, in this context, refers to “bogus
standards.” Why many government systems have, a history of failure that remains
prominent over decades has a lot to do with the influences of the management
model from private sector transferring into the realm of public administration.
Specifically, the unaccountable boss is the failure model that has decimated
the world economy.
We now know that systems where there is a head who
sets policy without proper internal checks and balances, is a publicly funded
system that will fail to deliver quality services to the community. So how does
a tax-funded agency, such as a public school site clearly indicate it has moved
from the boss mentality that has guided most failures in education, to ensure
there is now a more clearly designed management system that rewards leaders for
moving to a progressive all-inclusive management? As well, some penalties have
to be applied for the school settings that refuse to move towards a genuine
all-inclusive management model. Again, the elected lawmakers need to help
communities resolve this problem.
Luis South
Los Angeles