Schools in Covid-19 crisis: leadership is the key

“AS A country we are unwittingly setting in motion the wheels of a secondary crisis that will have untold ramifications for many years to come.”

I WROTE these words in August of last year in an opinion piece titled “School Principals a Critical Part of Covid-19 Recovery”. In it I advocated for school principals and educators to be classified as front-line workers in the battle against Covid-19.

I argued that principals are conduits into communities tens often hundreds of thousands strong. As community leaders, they are a highly-valuable and respected resource, involved at one of the sharpest and most dangerous edges of the South