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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In other countries, admin is called a head teacher. They actually still teach. That would go a long way toward keeping higher ups in touch with the realities of teaching. [/quote]

We have that here too. Just more layers of administration.[/quote]

But we don’t have that here. If we did, school-based administrators would still be  teachers with their own classes to teach.

I am a huge fan of this model. I don’t understand why we have a system in which non-teachers (including admin, who become detached and rusty) make all the decisions for teachers. [/quote]

We do. Every grade or department has a team lead.[/quote]

Department heads and team leads don’t run schools. The people who run schools need to actually be teachers, not people who rushed out of the classroom at the first opportunity. Administrators are far removed from the classroom, and yet we have a model that makes them the experts.

We could clear up a ton of problems within education if the decision makers were actually people in classrooms.[/quote]

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