The Organisation of Staff in Secondary Schools: Headteachers' management structures

Elected primary school parent governors, in this exploratory study, were dismissive of the termly governors’ meeting because they did not recognise its function or accept the relevance of its business. Inhibited from making a worthwhile contribution because of inexperience and the dominance of appointed representatives they sought to meet their responsibilities, as they saw them, by supporting the headteachers or by giving of their time during the school day. They expressed concern about classroom organisation and teaching methods and did not relate them to the broad aims of education they had themselves defined.