As a member of the SGA I had the pleasure to meet with the recruitment officer, George, for OSC’s new head of school. Even though this role will only open up in 2 years time, our school has started the search early to ensure that we have enough time to find the perfect head of school. As part of student input, the SGA was asked to come to a meeting with George and talk about the things we would like to see in a head of school.

Even though we were talking about the things we wanted to see happen, we were also given a moment to reflect upon the things we like seeing in our campus and school. I found this to be a very good question as it is often overlooked that schools are already excelling at certain things, such as diversity, and we would wish to have that continue.

I’m pleased to know that the school is taking student input very seriously and that the recruitment team were noting down all of the points we brought up for consideration. It’s important as a grade representative, and a representative of the school, that I bring forth the opinions of the students and have their well being in mind at all times when participating in these meetings. This is the reason why I brought up a point some might see as unnecessary; to keep in mind that a female head of school would be best. An immediate response to this was “shouldn’t it be the most qualified person?” I agree with this statement but found it worth mentioning that currently both the primary and secondary principal are males and if the head of school were to also be a male, that would leave little representation of women in these roles. If the best candidate were to be a male I would be perfectly fine with it but it is important that when we honour ourselves as a school of diversity, we are not only looking at nationalities but also genders, people from different backgrounds, sexualities etc.

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