A Principal's Personal Journey: Reflections on a year in the life of an inner city school administrator, with daily stories, experiences and conversations on discipline, decision-making, survival and leadership

"Whether observing instruction; or investigating a brawl on the bus;
or looking into a third grade pregnancy rumor; or dealing with a case in which a student used a drinking straw and a piece of spaghetti to demonstrate male and female sex organs; or handling a complaint from white parents that a black teacher gave their son the local obituaries to learn about black people; or being personally chastised for chasing a student; or witnessing a parent being arrested in the building by a police ...