Twenty-Eight Years in Education: The Joys and Sorrows of a Life in Public Education

What would you do as an elementary principal if an eight year old girl ran into your office with panic on her face and shouted, “Mr. Patrick, Ruby said come quick. Some men are aiming guns at the kids on the playground. Would you run to face the presumed killers or would you run the other way? And would you cry when you arrived at work one morning as the high school principal to be told a boy you cared for, but had to expel for drug use, had committed suicide the night before? Would you wra...