However, one of the students in my class played the whole score on the piano. Later on, she won a Metropolitan opera competition and became an opera star.
I still enjoy listening to Gilbert and Sullivan productions like H.M.S. Pinafore on a cassette recorder. Lyrics such as ‘I am the very model of a modern major general’ still are so inspiring. In today's "new normal", one ponders, in principle, what principals and the school system must be going through.
If Gilbert and Sullivan were with us today and decided to do a musical related to schools, in the year 2020, perhaps, ’IN PRINCIPLE’ might have been one of them.
I am the very model of a modern principal. I must still support some curriculums academic and now socially also convincible. I know the district superintendents, admirably and follow them religiously from this program to that one and of course very effective, apparently.
I’m very well degreed and perhaps have even earned a PhD. I completely comprehend (Jean) Piaget and plenty of psychology. We must understand politics, from the basic to the radical. We know when some lingering old fashioned types should quietly take a long sabbatical.We understand situations financial and sensitive and that maintaining a group environment is more conducive because individualism tends to be a tad competitive.
About public relations and theory, I am constantly exploring new and more exciting avenues, especially keeping costs administered down to a crucial minimal. That’s why, in principle, I am the very model of a modern school principal.