What’s the secret of the enlightened gender mix in the city where two-thirds of secondary heads are women?Catriona Mangham,headteacher of Fairfield high school in Bristol, recounts the story of a recent visit to her school by a member of the shadow cabinet. “One of the staff said: ‘Can I introduce you to the head?’ – and he shook the hand of the man standing next to me.”It says something about Mangham that she was not going to let this depart. “I told him: ‘You won’t come by my vote’, and ” she says. “I said: ‘Isn’t it inspiring,your assumption that the head of an inner-city secondary would be a man?’ He looked very embarrassed.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com