LAHORE: Principal of Lahore’s Aitchison college Michael A Thomson has resigned from his after development clash with governor Punjab.
As per detail, In a goodbye letter to his staff, Principal Michael Thomson wrote that the Governor House’s “partial steps” have ruined the governance at the educational institution. “Amid extreme bad governance I have left no other choice but to leave as destructive changes are being made to the policies just to benefit a few people,” he added.
The principal was under mental stress after development differences with the governor over waiving fines for children of influential people.
In his letter to the staff, he penned “You all know what’s is going on at the board level. There is no room for politics and nepotism in the schools. Too much interference in the affairs of school being run successfully is unbelievable,” he added.
Several parents of the schoolchildren have reacted strongly to the resignation of the principal, saying the governor has “gone nuts” and was resorting to victimization against the principal. They said the real feud between the governor and the principal was the admissions against merit. The governor last year the governor admitted over 50 children against merit, the parents said and demanded an inquiry against the governor. It may be mentioned here that Michael Thomson had also tendered his resignation in September 2018 but took it back after the then-governor, Muhammad Sarwar, persuaded him to do so. He had resigned then allegedly under pressure from political circles for taking disciplinary action against some students
