True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country (Kurt Vonnegut Jr)

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Each school I have worked in has been its own unique world. More accurately, each school has been like a different country.

Each with its own borders, cultures, languages, government, traditions, dress, rituals, and routines.

There are leaders, and an overall leader. There are financial controllers, and there are people to be governed.

When you leave one country and travel to another one, there are protocols to observe.

Schools are endlessly fascinating places. 

Politicians don't really get that. They think every school is the same; they think teachers are all the same; they think students are all the same. They think parents are all the same. 

So, they devise curriculums and rules that are standardised and homogenous. For them - in an effort to control, they think one size fits all.

That's a fatal flaw in their thinking.