Principles, My Dad, and Donald
Principles – “a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior or for a chain of reasoning.” Principles can relate to the rules of personal and moral behaviour as well as be the basis for scientific theorems. Principal – “the person with the highest authority or most important position in an organization, institution, or group My dad was a principal with principles. Elementary that is. He had thumbnail pictures of all the students in the school pasted onto the wall of his office. I guess he figured that it was easier to discipline a student if he knew his name. Or hers. He was a nice guy. Really soft-spoken. Teachers used to follow him from school to school. He didn’t like to stay in one too long. Even though he rarely yelled, Dad was a bit of scary guy ‘cause when he said something, he meant it. He could also make you feel like shit. That was his...