Retired Principal Tales

Taking One Day at a Time

Tag: school

  • Efficiency

    I heard that the government might reopen soon. This just blows my mind. How can you just shut down the government? What if educators just decided to shut down schools because they did not agree with something? I know that school would be closed often because there are always reasons for disagreement. Why are the…

  • Justice

    I am stressed out by some of the coverage of the Abby Zwerner case. That teacher needs to be given all the money she is suing for. As a retired administrator, I cannot imagine not responding to a concern that a student may have a weapon. Believe me, most administrators really are on it, unlike…

  • Another Mugshot

    Today, I saw another mugshot of a frequent flyer to my office during my tenure as an elementary principal. As much as I want to say it was unexpected, I cannot. His face was the same as it was almost fifteen years ago, except bigger. It is so sad that I have had the intuition…