Wednesday, August 23, 2006

The Disciplinarian

The position of Assistant Principle at the Lovett school is a hard one indeed. The job requires balancing lots of different tasks including planning assemblies and other administrative duties. But students rarely see that side of the Assistant Principle, they only see his role as the school disciplinarian. They have been famous and they have been infamous but we always remember our Assistant Principle. The new faculty member spear heading this task is Mr. Malito. Have been working with him more this year because of my position on SGA and I would simply like to publicly thank him for the great job he is doing. Of course we've only been in school two days but I think he is doing a great job.

I would also like to make it public knowlage that I really liked Sr. Yohn. While I may be among the few, I think he also did a fairly good job in his position. And he was really nice if you got to know him. But it is a hard job and I commend all those who rise to the task. And while we all Sam Even's "Bell Time," I think we have found a worthy successor.

The Convenience Factor

Lovett has done two things at the start of the school year which have generally made me a little irritated. First, the Senior Caravan was canceled and second, we are no longer allowed to paint on the athletic doors. Now of course there are substitutions in the works for both of these problems but it all comes down to a very simple cause: convenience. It is more convenient for the seniors to enter the first day of school in a very orderly and normal fashion, and it is more convenient to not have to clean the athletic doors. But is it not also more convenient not to have homecoming? Homecoming is just a lot of work. But homecoming is different you say? Well I agree but I think I have proven my point. I think we can put up with a little traffic on the first day of school and the loud music accompanied. And I think we could probably find a way to not burdened the housekeeping staff, but that would take energy, something apparently hard to come by on the Lovett campus.