The limited powers of school heads
Friday, March 31, 2023 | 70 Views |
Those who treat it just like any other job hardly go anywhere. A school principal is a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of his institution. Yet unlike other CEOS, this plum position of school principal enjoys limited powers.
CEOs in the non-teaching sphere have the comparative advantage of wielding some degree of direct control over matters of staff recruitment, deployment and dismissal of their charges.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...