<HTML>My comments today are aimed at the issue of school leadership. If you
read the writings of Roland Barth, Michael Fulian, and Andy Hargreaves,
you will find that this is not an exclusively Jewish problem. People are
abandoning the concept of school leadership largely because it has changed
so drastically over the years. Ever since the role of the parent in the
school has changed from observer to hand on evaluator of everything that
goes on in the school, the life of the school leader has changed. I know
of one teacher who is going to a school to give a model lesson in front of
a group of parents. Since the principal was not rehired because they
didn't like his personality, they have decided to do the hiring. That
there is no one to hire is not surprising. School leadership has changed
from running a school to a caucus-based leadership in which every decision
has to be floated through the community for support. Bar Ilan and Yeshiva
are not turning out enough people to fill the void.</HTML>
