It just doesn't make sense in a world based on information, cooperation, connectivity, complexity, and interaction. Using yesterday's perspective, skills, and structures to solve the problems of today will surely guide a school leader into an iceberg of trouble. The authoritarian leader of the past is not equipped to build the organizations of the future. Meeting the challenges of today Any teacher who has taught for several years will tell you that children are different today. Attention spans are shorter, family support is less, reading material in the home is less plentiful, and television viewing is up.
Newspapers regularly document the social changes that are affecting schools.
Crime and violence in the neighborhood is now in the neighborhood school. Drug babies are growing up and entering school. Special needs children are increasing. We continue to see larger numbers of single family homes. It appears that dysfunctional families are on the increase.