Big principal changes coming!

Four New School Principals Named - The Johnston County School Board has named new principals at four public schools. Following the announcement of the retirement of Dr. Peggy Smith at East Clayton Elementary School , Nancy Nettles, the current principal at Polenta Elementary, will take over her position at East Clayton on July 1. Deborah Johnson, an assistant principal at Polenta was named the new principal at Polenta. A former math teacher at Selma Middle and Clayton High School , Tamara Watson Barbour, was named Tuesday as the new principal at Benson Elementary School . Charles "Eddie" Price, an assistant principal at Clayton Middle, was named the principal at the school replacing Deborah Woodruff. Woodruff will begin work as the new Executive Director for Academic Programs at the Central Office on July 1. The school board also added a new finance officer to the staff. Arthur Stanley will begin work in September, assisting current finance officer Dan Jones. Stanley had previously worked for the Wilson County School System.

Eddie Price, who was recently named the 2007-08 Administrator of the Year, will become the new principal at Clayton Middle School on July 1.
http://www.1270wmpm.com/wmpm_local_news.htm


(I went to school with Eddie but had no idea he was an assistant principal.)

 

Thanks for this post. My son goes to Polenta. We will miss Ms. Nettles!

 

glad my son graduated this year she was very good.

 

Mr. Price will be a good principle at Clayton Middle. I sure hate Mrs. Woodruff is leaving...she is AWESOME! She's a no BS priniciple, if you don't follow the rules, you don't go to her school. We need so many more principals like her!

 

Congrats to Mrs. Johnson

She'll be great. She's a team builder who regards her teachers as professionals. I look forward to a dynamic beginning. It's a new day at Polenta.

 

I had her for English class in the 9th grade. As a student I didn't think she was so wonderful, but she was a tough teacher.



Craig

 

I had her too and I loved her. I'll bet she was an awesome principal!

 

Ready and Craig, you might have been in class with my husband! What years did y'all graduate?

He idolizes Debbie (had her in 9th grade and for AP English in 12th grade) and was supposed to student teach at Clayton Middle next year. That might not happen now, we'll see.

She'll be great at whatever she does. I am kind of glad she will be in central office, we need more good folks up there.

There may well be more principal changes coming - we shall see.

 

I always read that as we need more administrators that do nothing for the students we are trying to educate.

 

Central Office folks are the ones who determine how we do what we do and what resources we get to do it. It is very important that people in touch with the "real world" be up there doing that. You wouldn't believe how many hats some of those people have and how many ways they are pulled by those different responsibilities. Dr. Parker may get the big bucks, but these people in central office do a load of work, 12 months a year, trying to keep up with all the new laws, new curriculum, new EC laws, new teachers, retiring teachers, changing laws for hiring teachers, mounting expectations and testingtestingtesting.

YES I am glad Debbie will be working there because she REALLY knows her stuff.

 

1988 here.


Craig

 

Yes I understand what happens in the Central Office. Pity that they have to work 12 months though. I am sure it is hard to justify staffing, budgets, and compliance with many laws. Nobody said it would not be high pressure, but they should expect it when they choose that career.
To bring a business perspective to the situation the Central Office is a cost center. They do not make the entity any money, but keep it running so that they continue receiving the revenue. It is alway wise to limit the overhead in a cost center. The revenue generators get the money and perks except when it come to tax payer revenue.

 

1985 here. Hmmmm, so Craig and I went to school together for a little while. Excuse me while I consult my yearbooks...

:lol::lol:

 

You have to scan and post pictures :lol:

 

:lol::lol:

(If only I still looked like that. :cry

 

Well, dh was there with Craig, but not with Ready...he was 1991.

 

I was a bigger dork then than I am now.

And the glasses in the yearbook pictures prove it.



Craig

 

Craig, is this preemptive? :mrgreen:

 

Okay, pulled out my Senior yearbook. Are you on page 71, second from bottom row? If so, I'm so sorry but...

those glasses are almost the size of your head!!

If that is you, I didn't know you. :neutral:

 

Girl, you should see some of the pics of DH way back then! I was clearing out some things and came across our photo album (a real one) and just about died laughing! With him NOT at him! :lol:

Thank god for Lasik! :mrgreen: