ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on school leaders as professionals who work for the benefit of children and young people. Schools are where society chooses to look after its young through the prolonged childhood and adolescence of the human being. While churches and some charitable foundations grasped the need to educate especially boy-children, the purpose of that education was functionalist. The children come to schools with the full range of aptitudes, characteristics and human needs. Generally speaking, for excellent reasons of justice and fairness, school leaders educate them altogether. The paradigm parent is the uber-parent, the ur-parent, the parent who has devoted his adult life to learning what will benefit children most and making it happen in schools. When a child enters a secondary school they are well on the way to being adults. By the time they are 18 they need to be independent and able to decide for themselves.
