They tell a story about a small boy whose father is a high-powered executive. One morning he calls up the fancy corporate headquarters and asks to speak to his father.
“Sorry,” apologizes the gatekeeper, “your Daddy’s busy at a very important meeting right now, try later.” The kid does try later, in fact [...]

It was his first post as school principal. When the soft spoken, mild mannered young man walked in the door to take up his new position, he had no prior experience in running even a “normal” school. And this was no normal school.
Junior High School 22, a hotbed of drugs and violence, was [...]