Just a short post this weekend: I need
to tell you about a reassuring development.
Two weeks ago, I wrote about yet again
being totally frustrated by the unaccountability of the establishment. It was
in fact an article in a national union magazine that had triggered me. I came
upon the piece perchance, and there staring up at me was a picture of my
previous head. They were featured among other heads in a rather flattering
report. As far as good publicity goes…
A head thought by many -locally- to be
a sure enemy of the union, being put across nationally as a progressive,
forward-thinking leader is quite a coup.
It was shocking and upsetting, to
friends who had suffered and myself, that they had managed to get into the
publication. How had nothing been flagged during background checks?
To give credit to my union, once a few
of us had pointed the above situation out to them, assurances were made that
more thorough checks would be made in future.
I am even more grateful having
discovered today that the article has been pulled from the online version of
the publication. I was not contacted about this development, so I do not know
if it is temporary or permanent but it feels as if there is some justice out
there.[1]
And that the union can be counted on.
Have a good weekend one and all.
[1]
The publication has been in touch. The removal is permanent. The editor could
not have been nicer, explaining that he had also been victimised by an unscrupulous
head when he was school-based. That is integrity.
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