Sparks were flying last Wednesday morning at Soldotna High School, where junior Kevin Steger donned protective eyewear while applying a stick welder to a long strip of metal. As a flaming plume shot out of Steger’s workspace, flashes created by another student in a welding hood lit up the red plastic curtains sectioning off the area’s individual workspaces.
Sparks were flying Wednesday morning at Soldotna High School, where junior Kevin Steger donned protective eyewear while applying a stick welder to a long strip of metal. As a flaming plume shot out of Steger’s workspace, flashes created by another student in a welding hood lit up the red plastic curtains sectioning off the area’s individual workspaces.
These schools have it all but their boards are missing something: women
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Of the 18 positions on the council governing Parramattaâs 190-year-old Kings School, just one is held by a woman - former Abbotsleigh deputy head Rosemary Abrahams. At Trinity Grammar, another Anglican boysâ school, there are only two women among the 18 governors, and at Sydney Church of England Grammar (or Shore) there are four.
Kings, Shore, Trinity and other schools are under pressure to show leadership on gender issues amid concerns about privilege and toxic masculinity at boys-only schools and the influence that has on studentsâ attitudes and behaviour.