2006-06-27 04:28:25 · 12 answers · asked by petes2084 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
because they get big heads from being in control
2006-06-27 04:31:10 · answer #1 · answered by fb2kool 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A phrase my mother used to term puts it well; "Those who can, do. Those who can't teach"...or become principals. Not to knock teachers though, because I think there are more good out there than bad ones...you sure don't go into teaching for the money!
Many I met are over-educated and good at reguritating canned, long-winded, meaningless phrases but never answer questions directly. The better ones have common sense and people smarts, which is much more effective in dealing with kids logic most of the time.
There are some who are control obsessed and go overboard, but that is not exclusive to school principals...you will find that in any profession.
The arrogance is mostly due to the need to maintain order in chaos and to deal with manipulative, mouthy kids that attend our public schools. Being that they have taken way corporal punishment (wooden paddles with holes in them) words and arrogance are the only tools they have been left with to use. You didn't hear of kids beating up teachers when I went school when I was a kid because they would have had to face such a paddle; nowdays they just suspend them from school for 3 days.
2006-06-27 05:14:12 · answer #2 · answered by bottleblondemama 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are big ducks in little ponds
They have a modicum of power over a limited domain
So in order to justify their existence they are arrogant
.....Take them away from their school setting and the arrogance is gone, replaced by insecurity and a social ineptness
2006-06-27 04:34:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because only if they r arrogant, students 'll know the good & bad of the material world
2006-06-27 04:32:48 · answer #4 · answered by vinish 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they have to put up with a lot of smart *** kids with arrogant attitudes of their own.
2006-06-27 04:31:27 · answer #5 · answered by Stormy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It a control thing. They get power to put fear into the students and then they act like jerks.
2006-06-27 04:36:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Power!
2006-06-27 04:32:15 · answer #7 · answered by elananor 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They think that they are greater than everyone because they have "higher" degrees of education. Some are cool, but not many.
2006-06-27 04:32:06 · answer #8 · answered by goofy77 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They come from a different era and generation///
Don't paint everyone in the same brush
2006-06-27 04:36:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they have a position of authority and it goes to their head.
2006-06-27 04:32:30 · answer #10 · answered by AsianPersuasion :) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋