Initially I was confused about the idea of schools as organisations. I viewed this as a very corporate term.
After the readings I can see that schools are definitely an organisation. There is heirachial leadership, a mission and vision statement in place to reflect the philisophy, it has clients - that being the students, their parents and the wider community, structures are defined and there is a budget in place.
However schools ARE different to other organisations because:
1. students HAVE to be there - legally
2. the people who run these organisations are not necessarily qualified in the field, that being education. They are politicians who are answerable to the general community, which always have something to say about the state of education today and how it has gone downhill since their days of schooling .... years ago
3. changes in schools are dictated by those running it - the same ones with no educational qualifications - and extras (personal development, social development, driver safety .... the list is endless!) which take away from the educational objectives that the school has set and are trying to work towards
The myschool website goes to the heart of these points. It is all too aften inaccurate, as is the case at the moment with regards to funding. I would never feel that I was in a position to tell a bank how to run their organisation - I leave it to those who are experts in that particular field. I wish the general community would extendthe same courtesy to those in the educational field and let us get on with the business of creating lifelong learners.
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