Shelly Swayne, 27, the principal, waited for students to come in to talk about courses and sports for the next year.
There is no evidence that there are 5,000 outstanding principals waiting to be called to lead these schools, or that hundreds of thousands of "great" teachers will leave their jobs to teach in stigmatised schools.
Principals waited, with plates of mints and Tootsie Rolls, to pitch their schools as homey and safe.
A Webcam broadcast Mr. Brizard and his team to the other side of cyberspace, where hundreds of C.P.S. principals waited, with hundreds of questions regarding their new budgets.
The majority fall in to three camps, looking like either an angler sporting waders; a principal boy waiting for panto season to start or a lady of the night – a fisherman's friend, if you will.
Only the policy makers themselves were surprised that they could not find an army of highly qualified "principals in waiting" to take over our nation's failing schools.
At G.A.R. Memorial Junior-Senior High School in Wilkes-Barre (the abbreviation stands for "Grand Army of the Republic"), the principal, Colleen Robatin, was waiting by the gymnasium on Monday afternoon for the Red Cross to set up a shelter.
Ten years later, Billy's mother, Lisa Underwood arrives at the local elementary school to find the principal and staff waiting for her.
But department and union officials worried that principals were either waiting to fill vacancies or not posting them at all, possibly in an attempt to avoid hiring teachers from the reserve pool.
Murdisia Orr, the principal, said she was waiting to hear from district administrators about a revised budget.
