FROM MY DESK- 2008

Friends 

The life of an assistant principal in a large metropolitan primary school is an exciting and rewarding one. Each day presents new challenges and I, for one, relish the opportunities to assist tomorrow’s leaders in realising their dreams. 

Many of you know that Regan Central is located in the A.P.’s Office and an unannounced visit from any of you will often find me arranging paperclips in neat geometric piles or, perhaps, staring out the window at the vista that is suburban Wentworthville in 2008. Plenty of laughs were had all round late last week when a colleague- on her way to the toilet– disturbed your humble writer inspecting his chin in the brasco mirror to ascertain if he had got the morning’s shave lines just right. 

An assistant principal in today’s Department of Education and Training also has to do a lot of thinking. I’m constantly pondering stuff like- 

1. If I could do it all over again, would I?

2. Does Jennifer Hawkins really hate Megan Gale?

3. Why can’t you put a used car battery in the Otto on a Monday night?

4. What’s so strange about gladiator movies?

5. Since my daughter looks like me, how come she sounds like my wife?

6. If ‘the thrill is gone’, what keeps us all together?

7. Should I ‘rat’ on my neighbour for hosing down his driveway? 

As you can now understand, the dimensions of the assistant principal’s brief are large and, most certainly, varied. Please turn over for some more value-enhanced stuff.