In French "Chacun a son gout" or in English "To each is its own..." or it could also be translated as "different strokes for different folks" is true.
I've been teaching for more almost seven years already, had been under different administrators - eight of them specifically. Individual differences really show no matter how high the position a person is holding. Every administrator has its own taste. Differing upbringings, culture, values, and experiences cause us to have different perspective when given a particular situation.
Mind you, for almost seven years I could say that no matter how high a position one is holding, still he or she has biasis. Surely, there are those who are fair enough but there are also those who just listen to one side of a particular issue without even verifying what really are the two sides of the coin. My personal experiences have taught me this harsh reality. And that no matter what you do, there are still those who interpret what you are doing negatively.
A simple illustration in my Psychology class way back in college is a dominant truth that people uphold. When given a clean sheet of paper with a small dot in a particular part, what people notice is the dot and not the clean part. Very sad to note this truth. Who is perfect? Nobody is. Nobody will be but we could help each other reach our goal or objective. Instead of acting like crabs, we could be ants. Why pull each other when it is better to help carry the load of another person?
Easy to say but difficult to do. When a person shines, we love to find ways to smash the person's heart. When we look up above and see a bright star, what most say is not "how beautiful the star is", what most people say is "that star will lose its light someday." How could we be so mean? How could the people around us be so unfair? How could we smile yet break persons' hearts?
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