Originally Posted by Tallulah
I know several people who were very involved in the system (either socially ingratiating, on the school board or teachers or admin) and had to jump ship because the system is just too stagnant and hidebound to cater to HG+ kids.

It probably depends on the school system.

In the type of school autocracy I'm thinking of, the system doesn't have a choice if you have enough actual or social power.

Now if the bureaucracy is in charge, and no one individual holds the actual power to alter the system at will, that's different.

When I was in high school, and I wanted some sort of structural or procedural change, I simply hit the Easy Button and the change was made.

So, you have to make sure that you are in a system where the systemic power is personal and autocratic rather than bureaucratic and diffuse.