On the Way to School-Community Control, Some Observations, excerpt (text)

III-The Transititional Process: Centralization to Local Control

VARIABLE	FROM: CENTRALIZATION	TO: LOCAL CONTROL
Principals	Agent of system Teacher control completes forms	Agent of Local community teacher development Understands function
Teachers	Transmits curriculum Advocates of system	Develops curriculum Advocates of the students
Students	Targets of system	Reason for the system’s existence
School & Community Delivery Patterns	Separate entitites	Single entities
Parents	Spectators and reactors “Trouble-makers”	Participants and enactors “Constituents”
Identity	We - they Their School	Us “Our” Schools
Accountability	To Central Board	To Local Community
Goals	Change students	Change society and schools
Values	White middle class Double standards Suspend students Punish students to break spirit Prison-inmate	Humanistic and relevant Responsive and egalitarian Educate students Enable student not to require punishment Person-to person