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 :-) -- Pob hwyl / Best wishes Kevin Donnelly www.kyfieithu.co.uk - Meddalwedd Rhydd yn Gymraeg www.cymrux.org.uk - Linux Cymraeg ar un CD! _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
