After reading Ch. 1 of Polka and Litchka, my initial reaction was, “Why would anyone want that job?” The superintendent is put in a very tenuous position between a desire to help the district succeed by maintaining reasonable costs, promoting an environment where students are safe and have a desire to succeed and meanwhile, maintain your integrity. According to the text, Leyman (1993) defines mobbing as “social interaction through which a person is attacked by one or more (usually more than four) individuals almost on a daily basis and for periods of weeks or months, bringing the person (victim) into an almost helpless position with potentially high risk of expulsion (p.168). This chapter outlines just how helpless a superintendent can be once
