ABSTRACT
Francis James, the Principal of Grange High, and shared his educational vision through his views on leadership, the school, its students and teachers, parents and the community. It also explored with him his reaction to and enactment of key elements of the 'education revolution', the 'digital revolution', National Assessment Program: Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) and My School. It is now time to continue down the policy staircase to meet the teachers of Grange High. Parents may also have had negative experiences at school, with the result that teachers and parents have shared histories of mutual distrust, according to Mills and Gale. Grange teachers felt that, 'if parents had a bad time at school, then they don't give a damn about school or if the kid misbehaves'. School, for many parents, it was also suggested, was linked to their 'fears of institutions', particularly when parents have a history of contact with welfare and correctional institutions.
