Young heads are nothing new (“Too much, too young?”, TES Magazine, July 23). Sir Rhodes Boyson became a secondary modern head at 29, while the most famous head of all, Rugby’s Thomas Arnold, was one at 33.
Mark Taha, Sydenham, London.
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