How to Deal with Blame and Scapegoating at Your School
We’ve all been there . . . Someone within your school or district makes a mistake and now that person needs to “pay for it” in the eyes of others. Sometimes, we want to know where blame should be placed because it is a natural human reaction to search for answers and arrive at a resolution or end result so that there is closure in our own minds about an issue, problem, or mistake that was made. In Chapter 2 of Escaping the School Leader’s Dunk Tank, Rebecca and I contend tha