Ms. Herman, the principal, made every eighth grader stay after school to drill.
At the Wyoming School in Millburn, N.J., which serves kindergartners through fifth graders, the principal, George A. Dixon, is firm about enforcing a rule about morning drop-offs.
Parents in Clinton, North Carolina, are outraged after an assistant principal gave a third-grader a strip search there.
But before things could get started, the school's principal told the second-grader that he needed to wash his face, according to KWGN, leaving Sean confused.
When the principal learned that some fifth graders did not complete the test last fall, attributing the omissions to teachers, "that just drove her bananas," one staff member said, adding, "She blew.
Another incident in North Carolina sparked outrage in June when an even younger student was reportedly strip searched by an assistant principal who accused a third-grader of stealing money.
The principal was right about his first graders, but what about the fourth graders and their 18percentt competency?
-Another guy who should probably get fired: New Mexico Principal Robert Archuleta, who suspended an eighth grader for ten days after he threw an American flag out the window.
Jodi Kaplan Dear Diary: My wife is a New York City elementary school principal and recently accompanied the sixth graders on an outing to Riverbank State Park on the Hudson River off 145th Street.
In Freeport, principals and teachers examined each fourth grader's progress and schools held Saturday remedial sessions, said Eric Eversley, the district superintendent.
