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I know the secret to being a New York City elementary school principal. It's just four words: "Where do you belong?" The question is uttered in a tone at once stern and fond to any child, however small and winsome, found wandering the halls of school between periods.
I discovered this on a recent Thursday when I was officially principal of P.S. 154, on West 127th Street in Harlem. I learned it from Elizabeth Jarrett, 41, the school's everyday principal, a soft-spoken former special-ed teacher who has turned the school around from one that was...
Good question, Kenny. I belonged to a group of 1,050 New Yorkers who participated in the annual Principal for a Day program run jointly by the Board of Education and a nonprofit group called PENCIL (Public Education Needs Civic Involvement in Learning). The idea is simple: get corporate and...
Principal for a Day is in its fifth year, and has become a ritual for some of New York's Armani altruists, whose charity is usually limited to black-tie benefits. But seeing kids and teachers struggling to do the right thing in crumbling old school buildings has got industrialists...
I'm so scared, said the boy, as he took the gun out of his mouth and fell into the arms of the assistant principal, who had come to take it away from him. It's the last day of school, exam time, and we all are scared, because this...