Parish schools will have assistant principals this year

By Debbie Glover
St. Tammany News
Published on Monday, July 28, 2008 9:48 AM CDT

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The first day of school will see changes in many schools. In addition to textbooks, new teachers and changes in grade levels, students and parents may see a new administrator — the assistant principal.

Superintendent Gayle Sloan said schools with 400 students will have a full-time assistant principal. Those with less will have an assistant principal half a day, sharing an assistant principal with another school.

Bayou Lacombe Middle School and Chahta-Ima Elementary will share an assistant principal, Daphne Yolanda Low. Other schools getting an assistant principal for the first time include Abney Elementary, Diane Combs; Folsom Junior High, Sarah Badon Revere; and Sixth Ward Elementary, Rodney Thornhill.

Other schools have had changes in administration, including Abney Elementary, Robert Alford, principal; Boyet Junior High, Terrie Mathison, assistant principal; Cypress Cove Elementary, Arlene Sealy, assistant principal; Folsom Elementary, Lesa Bodnar, principal and Lelia Parker, assistant principal; Lee Road Junior High, Shelly Morris, assistant principal; Little Pearl Elementary, April Whitfield, principal; Mandeville Elementary, Judith Hankel, assistant principal; Northshore High, Harry Dixon III, assistant principal; Pitcher Junior High, Eddie Walker, assistant principal; and Tchefuncte Middle, Chris Oufnac, assistant principal.

Duties of the assistants will vary from school to school. Their main duty will be to assist the principal in whatever the principal needs help with, said Sloan.

Areas that assistant principals may be involved include discipline, plant operations and instruction.

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