Forum Iris & Bulbes

June 21st: this was an important day for students and teachers. The teachers turned in their final grades, cleaned their classrooms, packed up their supplies, and headed out the door to start their vacation. However, this joyous day was made even sweeter for the faculty and staff. _s contentious principal for the last three years had resigned his post. He had decided to take an administrative position in an Orange County school district. Many Lenore High teachers couldn_t hide their elation. For three hard years, teachers, counselors, and administrators at this school had to contend with boorish behavior, favoritism, disparaging e-mail comments, bullying, and shady practices from their leader. His tenure at the school was marked by involuntary transfers of teachers, the near dismantling of special education, resignations, and the loss of nearly half of its students to other schools. The situation was so dire that nearly 90% of the teachers and counselors at the school gave him a vote of no-confidence in a specially held union referendum last year.