Re: [Fsfe-uk] Re: Resignation from AFFS committee

[Kevin Donnelly]

On Monday 06 Jun 2005 14:28, Ian Lynch wrote:
> Well it just seems to me that I'm on a lot of committees and we don't
> seem to get all these points of order all the time. I was a school
> governor in fact at one time. Its common practice for the Chairman of
> Governors in a school to work quite closely with the Head as its
> impractical to have too many full meetings of the governing body. If
> every decision required such a meeting schools would grind to a halt. On
> the otherhand, major decisions such as permanent exclusion of a student
> will involve the governing body, a short term exclusion might not.
> Taking on a new caretaker probably wouldn't involve the GB, appointing
> the next head would and so on.

I think the problem is that some posts have suggested that there is no need 
for any procedure at all - I know perfectly well that an excess of procedure 
is stultifying, but some is required just in case someone falls under a bus.  
I was a governor too, and you're perfectly right about chairman/head 
co-operation.  But in our case these things were always reported on (and 
therefore minuted) at the next meeting, and we had a personnel subcommittee 
who did in fact interview caretakers :-)

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Kevin Donnelly

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