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Anarchy Looms If St. Joseph's Secondary School Chooses Wrong Principal |
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Written by Pastor Mohamed Sesay
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Tuesday, 16 February 2010 15:26 |
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Thirty St. Joseph's Senior Secondary School pupils accompanied by two teachers who came to our offices on Wednesday, 10th February, have told this press that if the school chooses the current Vice Principal of Wallace Johnson Junior Secondary School, Ms. Christiana Annie Leigh, they will make the school completely ungovernable.
The pupils were responding to articles they read in Peep Magazine which inform the general public that favouritism and nepotism were showing their ugly heads in the appointment of Senior Secondary School Principal.
"We can never allow that woman to destroy our school as she has done to Wallace Johnson," one of the pupils said in disgust.
This school will suffer if she comes here and we will not allow that".
The pupils and their teachers were unanimous to make the school lawless.
They made comparison to the St. Edwards Secondary School case in which a Principal was chosen to the majority's dislike, pupils of the school went on the rampage destroying the school's property.
"What happened at St. Edwards' is child's play," a soft spoken pupil said "we will not burn or loot but we will go on a forever sit-down strike until the authorities see sense and reverse their decision".
It could be recalled that after the interviews to appoint a Senior Secondary School Principal, a handful of members of the Board including its chairlady, Rev. Sister Anne, took it upon themselves to influence things by first telling the current acting Principal, Mrs. Hassan King who was one of the candidates, to step aside for Ms. Leigh and by going to the Ministry of Education to 'arrange' things.
Mrs. King's only problem with some members of the school's board is that she is not an alumni of the school, an archaic prerequisite which was made obsolete by the Education Act which allows for anybody who meets the set requirements to become Principal. |
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