During week 5 assignment, I recorded my experience at the Site Based Decision Making meeting where I interviewed a SBDM member and the principal. Our Site Based Decision Making committee is made up of teachers from every department, administrators, parents and other stakeholders. The level of the SBDM committee authority and power is often limited by the amount of control that the building principal is willing to grant to the committee. At our campus, SBDM committee recommendations are often passively-aggressively circumvented. The campus principal often feels that all of the members of the Site Based Decision Making committee fail to understand or lack the appropriate training in education to appreciate all the needs of the school. As the campus principal, she often finds herself in the position of needing to guide the SBDM committee in making appropriate decision for the school. She also feels even though there is a SBDM committee she will ultimately be held accountable for the overall decisions so that is the reason for her need to have some control.
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