Chapter 4: Schools as the Workplace for Students and Teachers

Staff and Organization:
Our school would hire teachers that are caring, willing and inspirational as well as a principal and vice principal who want to be involved with students. Ideally we would like a high teacher to student ratio as well in our school. In the Joy of Teaching they have a superintendent, a school board, but they do not talk about the importance of teachers that are qualified and passionate. Something that Joy of Teaching talks about that we didn't was about block scheduling as a way of organizing the day.

School District Relationship with the State
Ours would have a board that would consist of administration, teachers, and a some parents ( 40% - 40% - 20%), which would converse with the state and visa versa, whereas in the Joy of Teaching they say that the state has the responsibility for ensuring the education of its citizens .

Role of Federal Government
Our school would be Federally funded. In contrast the Joy of Teaching explains that the Federal Government makes decisions using the Supreme Court for example the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, and the Legislation makes decisions as well. An example of one of their decisions would be NCLB which is No Child Left Behind.

How Schools are Paid for
S.L. District 16 would have funding from the state as well as federal sources and the Joy of Teaching has these sources as well as from taxes (Property and Income tax).