School Stories Making Clear The School System Patterns

A school story that is written to allow transparency of the things that happen again and again at
school is not a simple collection or row of deeds or thoughts. It should concentrate on a specific
element of daily events which have their own structure.

You can take the relations between the teachers and the director as an example. In many schools
the director can decide almost everything. He makes the timetable,
he helps some teachers and students and does just the opposite to some others. He decides who is to
blame for something that happens and who is to be awarded for things that he appreciates.

He can torture a teacher, if he doesn't like him, until he changes to another school. He can set up his
often crazy rules and ask everyone to acclaim or keep quiet. He can change grades, if he finds the
complaint of a student or his parents OK. He can choose his co-directors and determine the atmosphere
of his school in many aspects.

In some countries the director can almost do what he likes, even things that are not legal. He has been
set in his position for all his lifetime, so nothing will happen, whatever the rubbish he does may mean to
others. And this is not only true for political systems of dictatorship.  Throughout the world democracy
ends at the entrance of a school building (or a factory or an office building).

So, if you want to point at this problem, write a story about a director and his patterns, his behaviour
in the system that he can structure more or less. Take one of the possible topics, construct the action and
you will have it. I am sure, many of my readers will only have to remember their own true experience with a school director. Take one aspect down, describe the setting and the action, don't exaggerate too much - normally there will be no need to do so - and you will have a nice story about one of the biggest school problems of all times: the director of a school!