Chapter 4: Schools as the Workplace for Students and Teachers

The school that my group created is the Quentin Tarantino College Preparatory School, geared toward the academically gifted and talented students.  Using the boarding school design, our school administration is comprised of a Headmaster, who fills the role similar to a principal, a Deputy Headmistress, whose role is similar to that of an assistant principal. Their duties include enforcing discipline, hiring staff, ensuring the quality of education, and maintaining the school budget, among others. The high level of education taught at QTPS requires that all staff members obtain the highest degrees available to them, with the preferred degree being a Doctoral degree.  We require our staff members to be experts in their fields of study, not only in their content area, but in their teaching.  They should be able to demonstrate proficient knowledge of various effective teaching strategies that fully engage the students in order to ensure the best education for the students.  Team teaching will be highly encouraged and any additional opportunities that might arise from such a configuration will be specially funded with money donated from our school's sponsor, Quentin Tarantino.

Because our school is a private, individual school, it does not belong to a school district, so there is no superintendent, nor any kind of relationship between the school and the state.  The school receives private funding, develops its own curriculum, and holds its students to higher standards than any government requires.  The governing system for the school is a school board, which is made up of staff members, students, parents, and the trustees to the Quentin Tarantino College Preparatory School Education Fund.  Together, the school board makes all of the final decisions, such as which professors to hire, how much money to allot to each program, and whether the students are meeting the education expectations required of them.

The federal government should have no role in our school because we chose to create an individual, private, school community.  The only instance in which the federal government may get involved is if someone decides to file a lawsuit against the school for whatever reason, which we hope will never happen because we take pride in the excellence of our school.  Federal funding will not be accepted because we do not want to be tied to the government and required to follow whatever latest policies the government has decided to enact.  Instead, all funding will come from the Quentin Tarantino College Preparatory School Education Fund and the annual tuition each student is expected to pay.  The tuition for each student is $5,000.00 annually, with limited financial aid available.  Grants that do not receive federal funding and can be connected to an academic area in our school will be sought out to assist our students in furthering their education through personal research and academic field trips.

QTPS differs from the typical school in the United States in many ways.  The first of which is that it is an individual school, separate from any district and the state.  It also requires each of its professors to have a much higher degree than most schools, because we accept only the highest qualified teachers.  The source of funding is also atypical, although charter schools do use similar sources.  The most important difference, and one of the main goals of QTPS, is that it is an individual, separate school, with a community in itself, whereas most schools belong to a community.