Lets cut through the fog on superintendents

I’m an active duty army officer with a political science undergrad degree considering the school superintendent path long term. I’m 25 and getting out soon.

I probably would need to make several posts to do all my questions justice. But I’ll start with what I’m really curious about, how much impact can a superintendent of say a large inner city district make on their own? And how “politically” constrained are they?

I want to do this because I’m economically left wing and I view teaching as sacred. I also want to help foster the type of positive school culture I sure as hell never had growing up. I see many teachers on reddit view superintendents as out of touch bourgeoise.

Worded another way, do superintendents face cold hard incentives that prevent them from being transformative leaders? Or do a lot of people go into it for the wrong reasons?

Edit; and for the record I’m aware of the expectation you teach for a few years, get a masters, work in admin/principal, etc. Takes 11-14 years.

Submitted July 02, 2023 at 12:24PM by GRILLPILL_COMEDY https://ift.tt/JwlSrmu