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It's The Principal Of The Thing: Guiding A Rural School Has Its Own Trials, Susan Wilson, Tim France
It's The Principal Of The Thing: Guiding A Rural School Has Its Own Trials, Susan Wilson, Tim France
Metroscape
The difficulties of K-12 education have become familiar to citizens of the metroscape, but they are usually viewed through the lens of urban and suburban schools, with their problems of multi-ethnic populations, crowded classrooms, strained budgets, and the like. Metroscape® was curious about the struggles and triumphs of the schools in the rural areas of the region, so we sent our interviewer, Susan Wilson, a Portland freelance writer, to Willamina to talk to a small town education leader in hopes of glimpsing the realities of schooling kids in that often overlooked setting.
A small-town principal is a versatile member of …