Category: principal

Principal Drives Bus to Take Students Back Home Safely Amid COVID-19 Staff Shortages

A Kentucky school principal has added to her resumé amid staff shortages owing to the pandemic. She has taken on the role of a bus driver to ensure her students get home from school safely. Janet Throgmorton of Fancy Farm Elementary in Graves County, western Kentucky, is acting principal to 184 preschool through sixth-grade students….


Principal Joe Clark, Who Inspired Film ‘Lean on Me,’ Dies

GAINESVILLE, Fla.—Joe Louis Clark, the baseball bat and bullhorn-wielding principal whose unwavering commitment to his students and uncompromising disciplinary methods inspired the 1989 film “Lean on Me,” died at his Florida home on Tuesday after a long battle with an unspecified illness, his family said. He was 82. At crime- and drug-ridden Eastside High School…