asserts that school leaders may have second order values (such as a commitment to team working or involving staff in decision making) that can stand in contrast to the dominance of the culture of performance, but that they are unable to challenge there first order values. first order values, in the form of system aims and outcomes, are determined elsewhere and reinforced by powerful control mechanisms that render then defectively unchallenged second order values may result in internal policy agendas that appear more acceptable, but this is no more than a discussion about means rather than ends - the ends remain beyond debate. more recently wright has argued:
principals are not necessarily unprincipled people, far from it, but the system in which they have to perforates stipulates the overall framework, values direction and often the detail of what they have to do.