<HTML>I am new to this, so excuse me, please, if I am off track, but I have to
hope that Mr. Katz did not mean that response to be as insulting as it
sounded.
First of all, I do not believe that whether women can head boys' schools
is a restatement of her question, and yes, this sounds very personal. Her
query seemed quite clear as it was, and deliberately on this one aspect of
this issue: why can't women act as principals in co-ed schools?
While I do not want to keep the conversation going in that misdirection, I
will say that I do not believe that men can act the same as women as
figureheads for either school--"effective" and "alike" are much different
ideas--nor, on the same line, do I understand what loss the boys
experience with a female principal. By what criteria are we using
"effective?" I would think that the advantages that an all-boys school
would experience with a female principal are at least equal to the
disadvantages an all-girls school would suffer with a male principal . . .
in the end, I also do not believe that Ms. Schlaff is any closer to her
answer.
I am, however, be interested in the background explanation to Mr. Katz's
comments, and other answers to Ms. Schlaff's question.
Judith Ann Cohn
Instructor, Temple Israel Religious School, Charleston WV
Program Director, Instructor, Humanities Department, West Virginia State
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