著者

土肥 信雄

出版者

日本教育政策学会

雑誌

日本教育政策学会年報 (ISSN:24241474)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.18, pp.110-116, 2011-07-15 (Released:2017-11-18)

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The reason why I demanded to withdraw the notice "prohibition of a vote by a show of hands in a staff meeting" issued by the Tokyo's board of education is that the notice took freedom of speech and the authority of principal by force. The main function of educational government (the board of education) is to maintain the surroundings of education. It is absolute that educational government must not infringe on the authority of the principal and the content of education, because, educational neutrality will be lost. But recently educational governments have infringed on the authority of the principal and the content of education in many cases. The board of education caused this infringement. On the one hand, the board of education has absolute power and conveys policies down the hierarchy to those lower down. On the other hand, members in the board of education know little about the content of educational matters. So the secretariat of education bureaucratizes. When the board of education works effectively, the members of the board of education fully reflect popular opinion.