User blog comment:Zathronas/Speculative Author - What's next? part 3 The Adults/@comment-19214484-20160321142518/@comment-24218038-20160322142736

Here's my reasoning, Ironwood must have been very talented and highly regarded to have both position in the first place. You don't completely remove an asset like him because of a mistake, since the general position is more about strategy and that is where he made his mistake, you remove that title. Headmaster is more about training, discipline and indoctrination (in Atlas, not in any other schools.) So you let him continue do what he was good at in the first place.