Chapter 4: Schools as the Workplace for Students and Teachers

The school my team proposed for the “Who are Schools For” activity is primarily a post – secondary educational adult facility, and therefore is substantially dissimilar to the U.S. public school system as described in The Joy of Teaching.
Like public ones, our school is staffed by specialized professionals who follow a schedule in a “classroom” / lab. However, our proposal unfortunately did not specify an administrator position, just a panel of instructors who might act similar to a strong school board. The size was small enough that we did not consider multiple levels of line relationships.
Since our proposal was mainly for adult level professional development, the various levels of government and their agencies are not mandated to be involved. However, there would be a certain amount of influence by professional accreditation organizations, as well as by government licensing agencies.
While public schools are largely paid for by taxes, and have budgets open to scrutiny by many people, our proposal is a private, for profit, business. Funding would be through private tuition, and a business office and manager would have to be set up to handle this and related matters.