The study explored whether the tugs between administrators of school districts and teachers who were compelled to participate in in-service had impacts on teacher profession. The purpose was to investigate how both school administrators and teachers reacted when being urged to do so. Utilizing institutional ethnography, the researcher invited 6 elementary teachers to be the participants. The teachers came from two types of schools which were quite different in the opportunities of required in-service trainings. Data collection includes interviews and document analysis.The conclusions were as follows: (a)Teachers’ professional autonomy was blocked when compelled to participate in non-professionassociated in-service trainings; (b)School’s administrators and teachers revealed responding strategies in between protective strategies and influence strategies, to remain their limited autonomy; (c) Officials took the decisive power of disciplinary authority to control and restrict teachers’ limited professional autonomy when confronting teachers’ rejection.