A School is like any other legacy system. Over the time lethargy sets in and people tend to become fatalistic and disillusioned. I am not an expert on how to turn around such organizations but a couple of things I notice.
In such organizations, questioning fundamental premises or giving radical alternatives doesn't work. The system has lost any flexibility to respond to any such solutions. In fact, that is why it has became a legacy in first place.
What we need to do is to engineer small, successive and positive accidents. These may be trivial but they should work. This gives a feel that system is responding, which in-turn changes the mindset of stake-holders. The good news is that even though the grown-ups would have largely given-up, schools have large population of young crowd which is willing to try.
After many small positive accidents, one should try out bigger proposals that are also guarantied to succeed. And slowly people would get into good mood and are willing to try new things. At least that is the hope.
Schools, of all, need to be very responsive to changes happening in the society. Its only through such cascade effects that we may have of hope changing the schools.
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