Why do some educational employees resist change?

Change is not easy. It is so easy to slip into a comfortable routine. Change requires that we stretch. Stretching is not necessarily and easy thing to do. Stretching often results in pains. It results in stepping into unknown territories and sometimes starting from square one.

Building muscles requires some pain.Some people dislike the pain that comes with growth and do what they can to avoid the pain or put it off as long as possible. Although it sounds wise and seems sane to embrace and face the pain it is not necessarily a common reaction and it is a response that must be learned. 

Change can be scary, especially when you are good at what you are doing currently. Even if your level of proficiency is in your own mind.Its hard to face unkown challenges and results.

Clarity is calming.  

I believe that many educational professionals reject change because in their mind what they have been doing is working. They feel that over the passage of time they have built up a foundation. Its difficult to give up everything you have vested and start over. For many that is what change feels like. 

Change in whatever form is initially resisted.The reasons for the resistance are many and varied.Chief among these is FEAR of the unknown.Humans are fearful of imagined outcomes.The other reasons however will be the direct consequences of the change to individual people,departure from the 'normative'  way of doing things and in some instances change of status.

People resist change because we are all too secured in what we know, in the current system, in what we have been accustomed to doing. This doesn't just apply to any specific gourp of people. In fact, all of us at certain points in our lives resisted change.

It takes a lot of wisdom to embrace change. Only the brave and wise can thrive and flourish in this reality.

Laziness, lack of confidence, fear of change, reluctance to change something that they perceive as "working", there are a multitude of reasons. Personally I don't agree with change for the sake of change but am always prepared to listen to suggestions for innovation within the education system.

change is a loss to their priviliges