"CITIZEN! PAY ATTENTION! ..."

Ponsonby! The head wants you on the interociter!

   I, too, am worried about this. First, the idea of reaching children through the artificial barrier of a television screen instead of in the reality of the flesh seems misguided. Secondly, this lady seems to use clichés all the time. Better to do as do some outstanding heads that I know: have proper assemblies every morning and let the head lead them; have the head's study open all the time outside lesson times so that children can come to her; use every Saturday morning for the head to be on the playing fields watching school sport and talking to the pupils. This head might do well to visit MGS, Bolton School. Bury Grammar, Stockport Grammar and other outstanding schools and see what happens there. No TV and no clichés.

   regular contact means face to face contact, I think - not through a screen!!

   Yuck, Hate this idea, this should be an 'as well as' idea not instead of face to face contact. Just because we have the technology doesn't mean we have to use it for everything.