ABSTRACT
They say that politics is the art of the possible. Running a school’s a bit like that too. You can make plans, and rules, and strategies, but you’ll still end up struggling to get through the day. Suppose, for example, a child persistently turns up to school in clothes that break the uniform rules. Do you punish the child? It’s probably his mum that’s sent him out in the wrong shirt – and who knows what pressures she’s under? But a rule’s a rule, isn’t it? That’s certainly what the other parents are thinking when they look accusingly at you.
