English 2023 Q8: This question is based on ‘The Lekki Headmaster’. What role does Mrs. Gloss’ family play in the decision-making process?

In Chapter 5, Mrs Gloss finds staff cars hidden on school land. She learns the teachers bought them with loans from the staff cooperative society. Worried about the cooperative’s money, she calls an emergency board meeting with family members, including her mother, Chief Mrs Solape Bayo.

This family board sets the cooperative’s money rules. It caps loans at N250,000 and requires the MD’s approval for requests. So the family guides the cooperative’s financial policies. It does not run the school day to day or handle staff relations.