Dear Editor,

I would advise the Ministry of Education to review their hiring policies when it comes to the appointment of principals and senior masters. It has come to my attention that when a school experiences a problem some of the senior masters or mistresses are reluctant to report the matter to their superiors and attempt to charge parents or guardians of the students who were the victims. The troublemakers are allowed to return to school, blameless.
Most of the schools with this particular problem do not have men as senior masters. Except the senior mistress has a determination that exceeds the young man's proclivities toward being in charge, it is very difficult for a woman to be in charge of any young man or woman.
Men are not women and women are not men. For the natural order to be reestablished people who are appointed to head schools must understand what is required and what it will take to eradicate the state of affairs that began more than a generation ago.
The Ministry of Education has the data to support what has been written here. They have noted the exemplary success that follows the appointment of men to the senior master position, although those appointments have been few. Tragically, when those schools become successful people are "moved around".
What is it about continued success that we have a problem with?

-- Edward Hutcheson

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