One ert Seas Areca ‘maile to work Getter for everyone —this: Pees al DU a ee aContents Penguin Books Lid 27 Weights Lane, London WS ST2 (Publishing and Editorial) Introduction 7 Harmonésvorth, Middlsex, Bgland (Datbutlon ad W on peers 1 Organizing Schools 11 2 Are Schools Different? 34 3 Dealing With Individuals and Groups 47 4 Running the Organization 73, 5 Facing the Future 102 References and Further Reading 128 Al gh reserved pentane xcept inthe United States of Arai this book ic sod aubect hl nots by way of tad or eters, bea4 Organizing Schools Schools are also organizations. Sometimes the preoccupation with so ‘many children, with the odds and ends of schooling, with the dramas of young people’s lives and all their emotions, can blind one to the fact that all the things are happening within an organization that is itself bound by the laws of other organizations. Box {.1 shows how it feels in the ‘words of a primary-school headteacher describing a typical Monday morning in bis school Box 11 Monday morning 1 needa't pick wp Mas Churchill ths morning. She rang at 7:30am. to say her baby Geughtr Lea was il, and che would have to stay at home to look after het Funny bow calls at 730 a.m. at home and 8.30 am. at school ‘sually mean some staf emergency! 'No work on the stationery requisition today. 1 will ke J2, and the school secretary can rough out stationery requirements after finishing the ‘hie inspection by the District Nurse at 9:30 am. Halfpast ight as passed -no telephone call, No further saf¥ absence today. We'll manage. ‘Children and parents already paying dinner money at sexretary's ‘window. Nursery teachor rings on internal line to say she's dscoverest three broken windows in ber activites room. She wil find caetaker. Parent arrives with son ~ she is taking him for a medical but would [ arrange to keep a dinner for him? Secretary passes message to cook. Father arrives to stileen? ead to vistors.