Sociological Work by Fanny Ginor

Author:Fanny Ginor [Ginor, Fanny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Sociology, General
ISBN: 9781351488952
Google: Hm9QDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-29T03:29:12+00:00

I'm tempted to blame most of it on our new principal.… [The old principal] kept excellent order. Now the children don't seem to have the same feeling about this man. They're not afraid of him, they don't respect him. And the discipline in the school has suffered tremendously. The whole school is less orderly now.

This problem is considered most serious when the change takes place in a “slum” school in which the discipline problem has been kept under control primarily through the efforts of a strict principal. Reactions to such an event, and consequent career development, vary in schools in different social-class areas. Such a change in a “slum” school usually produces an immediate and tremendous increase in teacher turnover. A teacher who had been through such an experience estimated that faculty turnover through transfer rose from almost nothing to 60 per cent or more during the year following the change. Where the change takes place in a “nicer,” upper-middle-class school, teachers are reluctant to move and give up their hard-won positions, preferring to take a chance on the qualities of the new incumbent. Only if he is particularly unsatisfying are they likely to transfer.

Another fear is that a change in principals will destroy the existing allocation of privilege and influence among the teachers, the new principal failing to respect the informal understandings of the teachers with regard to these matters. The following quotations describe two new principals who acted in this fashion:

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