A Headmaster's Story by Bill Schroder

Author:Bill Schroder
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
Published: 2019-05-10T07:17:59+00:00

CHAPTER 7

Transformation and beyond

As we moved towards the change of education departments, as a school we wanted to be a sincere and significant agent for change. To achieve this, we would need to strategise on a number of issues that would enable us to assist the new department but at the same time not compromise our high standards. As mentioned in the previous chapter, a major priority was to increase the number of boarders. With a campus as large as ours – Boys High covers an area of 40 hectares– it seemed obvious to me that the school would be required to take more boys in the future.

We had a further injection in size by having the buildings that housed the Pro Arte art and ballet school, on our northwestern boundary, returned to us. This area had been expropriated some years before and a totally prefabricated collection of buildings had been erected, including a ballet hall and an organ room with a pipe organ. Our boys rather enjoyed having Pro Arte on our boundary, as they were able to watch the girls doing their physical education classes, which did not impress the staff of Pro Arte.

We heard through the grapevine that the department was considering amalgamating Pro Arte with another school that was also not full, and made representations to have the area handed back to us. Strangely, no documentation could be found with regard to the expropriation, but fortunately the Transvaal head of education was sympathetic to our cause and ensured that the property was returned to us.

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