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A few observations about High School Principals
Monday, June 13, 2011 at 4:54PM I’ve had an opportunity over the past few years to observe a high school principal in his native environment. Here are a few things I’ve noticed.
1. If people in the community recognize someone as a high school principal, they assume that the principal has the power to take charge of a situation, especially with regards to controlling the behavior of children. This is especially true at the grocery store. And the movie theater. And the swimming pool.
2. Principals know enough private things about some families to make everyone feel a little uncomfortable, but not as much as many people believe, and frequently not enough to figure out the best solution to any given problem for a student.
4. Many parents expect principals to know how to raise children. All children. In all circumstances. Regardless of their own parenting experience.
5. Many people believe that there are too many principals and other administrators in public schools and that those administrators are paid too much. Our ten-year-old car laughs at that assertion.
6. The principals in Texas occasionally convene in Austin (with their pockets full of referral slips) and engage in behaviors that any self-respecting teenager would find embarrassing and horrifying. Behaviors such as Having a Good Time, and Not Thinking About School, or Thinking About School Too Much.
7. Sometimes principals have to clean up barf. Or tell people to shave or change clothes. Or try to catch students as they fall apart. Or give students a boost or a break or a hard time. Or send them to ISS. Or stand helplessly. Or get cursed at. Or clap. Or cry. Or throw up their hands. Or dye their hair red and blue and then shave it all off. Or listen. Again. Or hang up the keys and turn off the lights until the next school year begins.
What do you know about high school principals?
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