Budget Interview
Principals of Elementary, Middle and High Schools all adhere to the same budgeting processes established by their particular district. Although the process to request supplies and services to operate a school are similar, these three budgets are very different. In this assignment you are asked to compare and contrast the complexity and components of the school budget between a high school, middle school and elementary school.
Purpose:
Learn from experienced practitioners about the process of planning and operating a school budget.
Instructions:
1. Identify a principal or another administrator AND a book-keeper from one school (total to interview is 2).
2. Review the interview questions (attached).
3. Review the rubric to be used to assess the assignment submission (attached).
4. Conduct the interview, using the questions provided (attached interview)
5. Your final paper should include the following sections: a) transcribe the respondents’ answers as details as possible, b) reflect on the lessons learned, c) articulate how you would apply this knowledge in the future.
Sample Solution
Thomas Hobbes
Self-interest is not necessarily evil, though it can lead people to act in morally reprehensible ways. The love of self-interest, and the consequent development of self-interest, is one aspect of a creature who is also a social, and hence moral, being. Self-interest itself can serve moral interests in a free society so long as that society has the proper foundations. The Golden Rule was soiled by the philosophers and political thinkers of the enlightenment. Hobbes may be called the first liberal in a manner of speaking since, at least, with respect of Golden Rule, he transformed it from a rule regarding duty or law, to a rule regarding liberty, or the absence of law. The difference is subtle, but of significant importance, and it comes from his anthropology, where he rejects the natural social tendencies in man.
