School Leadership - A Scottish Perspective

At the current time people across the world are very concerned by the growing spread of the coronavirus, and are right to be so, though, it is easy to despair at the reactions of some people and some politicians. The spectacle of people fighting over toilet rolls, and of empty shelves in shops and supermarkets, is perhaps more evidence, if we needed it, of the small mindedness of some as well as their inability to actually 'hear' what medical health experts are saying about the virus, how it spreads and the impacts on different sections on the population. It would seem that the people who are the least likely to be affected by the virus are the ones fighting over toilet rolls, and are clearing shelves, with little or no regard to the impacts for those who are most at risk. Governments struggle to keep up, not surprising given the level of capacity, and agendas, displayed by so many government and their ministers. In the USA, UK and Australia we have governments driven by ideolo