Nonsuch school head takes 'indefinite leave' (From Wandsworth Guardian)

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  Likkle wrote:
  Is it actually anyones business as to why she has disappeared?
  
  She may have had a death in the famiy for all we know, yet someone has felt the need to put it in the local paper.
  
  Cant people have any privacy anymore??!!

  As a parent of a Nonsuch pupil I do not expect to find out about the Head's sudden departure via an internet news article. Is it anyone's business? Actually, yes. The Head Teacher and Governing Body are responsible for an annual expenditure in excess of £5 million pounds of public money and the education and welfare of some 1200 children. Public scrutiny and transparency is not only inevitable but necessary. A personal loss or illness are easily explained as such, without the need to go into any invasive detail whatsoever. This leaves, presumably, "professional" reasons which can have far greater latent repercussions on teaching and learning at the School. We have a Governing Body that fails to inform parents for weeks. At what point is all this meant to give me confidence in what the Governing Body has (or rather, has not) said, let alone done? As a parent, Chair of Governors, and professional governance clerk myself, it doesn't. Does this Academy consider parental and public accountability so inconsequential?"
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