Aug 3
a resignation
Well this week has certainly been interesting. The Principal of our school Dr. Pargetter has tended his resignation, which means that Haileybury will be getting a new principal. Dr Pargetter has been the principal of Haileybury during my entire time here, and he has made the school what it is today. While many people have at times disagreed with some of the things he has done (myself included) I believe that Haileybury is, through his leadership and vision, a better school than what it was in 1999. Dr. Pargetter came to our school during a period of declining enrollments and growing student and staff dissatisfaction. When he started, Haileybury College as it was known then, was an all boys school which was relatively traditional (Aikman had modernised it to an extent). Haileybury is now a “parallel educational” school that has over 3000 students with a unique academic program and some pretty good new facilities. There are however some programs that I believe need tweaking, in particular the Lecture and Term 4B program, however the general philosophy behind them is a good one. I commend and thank Dr Pargetter for what he has done for the school and I hope his successor will build upon Dr Pargetter’s vision and success, as Dr. Pargetter always used to say “success breeds success”.
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im extremely disappointed that I’m not as brilliant as you.
this post should make the school happy
what is this? you edited out most of my praise for you.
im extremely disappointed that I’m not as brilliant as you.
RIP pargetter! we’ll miss you!
RIP Pargy
RIP….Haileybury Shall miss u PARGY!!!
u have done great….u have support every1….even when a word has not been spoken….though i have not met u personally….i knew from what i saw….that u are a great man…..u shall not disappear….u shall alwais remain in our hearts 4eva….i will surely miss u….RIP DR PARGY!!