Not a whimper from the normally
aggressive in your face OLD boys from RCU on their school’s Principal’s
transfer. IF they don’t agree they must be shouting within minutes that it was
not cricket! So if they are NOT shouting, then shame on you for keeping quiet.
If the OLD Royalists cannot admit to some serious lapses on their part for
backing a Principal who has slapped them in the face, then something got to
give.
It is time an explanation is given
without delay, or at least asked for from the Education department that took
this step against the most prestigious school in Sri Lanka, calls into question
the ethics of whole school on which the envy of Sri Lanka is built upon.
Where are the usually pontificating,
overbearing, and in your face Royalists that make no bones about how well run
and how good the school is when the winners are chosen from 10,000 when other
schools provide the same number of winners from say. 1,000 students who could
more justifiably claim a better performance as they don’t even have the
privilege of selecting the best in grade 5 exam to enhance their tendency to
perform well at state exams!
Unless there are MEA CULPAS, that accept
failings and shortcomings of the people overseeing the Principal, and corrective
action taken to ensure such situations are NOT repeated, the status of the
school is bound to suffer.
I know the Principal in his own mind
will know that such a person, appointed in any other country, in such a
position would draw a monthly income of at least Rs500,000 and a decent car and
driver, and petrol allowance, it may have been up to the Principal to pay
himself the difference and then some using means that are prohibited from his
position. In order that this does not re-occur, I re commend that future Royal principal’s
are given his additional allowance by the old BOYS UNION, so he does not have to
sully the reputation of the school by having to resort to dirty tricks to supplement
the entertainment allowance, and clothes allowance, becoming of such an important
position.
This goes to the heart of the matter, where
some Educationists are hidebound by state rules, and restricted in terms of pay
that apart from the prestigious position, is not one where the job can be performed
by a competent person. I am not commenting on the competence of the position of
the Principal, as he would have risen from the ranks, and not plucked from a lofty
position for the role.
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