One Opinion.

Theres a lady my aunt works with that is going for her Principalship, wants to become a principal. My aunt e-mailed her and asked her what she would do in the following situation.

If you found yourself as a principal at a relatively large high school with 3 vices to help you, what would you do in this situation..Its exam day like other high schools. There is a high student population attending school this day. At around 11:00am, you find yourself being called to a few situations around the school involving approx. 30 students. This includes fireworks being set off, crazy glue being used on portable classroom locks and one other incident which you don't know full details yet. Do you do one of the following or do you have a different outcome for this,
A) You call a lock down of the school. this will secure those writing exams so they can continue and possible sort out those who are causing trouble
A) PRETTY DIFFICULT TO LOCK DOWN FOR SAFETY REASONS, NOT ADVISABLE. COULD LEAD TO MORE DISRUPTION AND CAUSE PANIC FOR PARENTS ETC.
B) You take control of the situations
B) IMPOSSIBLE FOR ONE PERSON TO TAKE CARE OF ALL SITUATIONS AND DO A GOODJOB
C) You do nothing and hope everything goes away
C) NOT COMFORTABLE FOR ME PERSONALLY...ENCOURAGES MORE ANTICS
D) You decide that the school is unsafe for the students and call a full evacuation of the school and so that everyone will do this you pull the fire alarm
D) PULLING A FIRE ALARM WITHOUT A FIRE OR SUSPECT IS SUBJECT TO PENALTIES I BELIEVE. WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH GOING OVER THE PA, ALTHOUGH IT WOULD HAVE TOBE PRETTY OUT OF CONTROL FOR ME TO DO THAT!!!
E) You send out the vices to round up the trouble makers so the many other students can continue to write their exams
E) SEE COMMENT ABOVE - THE TROUBLE MAKERS SHOULD BE LONG GONE. NOTHING WRONGWITH EXTRA SUPERVISION BY ADMIN IN THE HALLS.

E-mail Back -
Hmmmm....is this a trick question? Did one of my professors or someone atthe VSB put you up to this??? Anyways, I'll go for it...As the principal, I would:
1) NOT go into panic mode and gather as much info ON ALL THE SITUATIONS Ican first.
2) The exams go on as usual/normal...except with VP or extra teacher supervision in the halls around those areas to avoid disruption and keepcalm & quiet...
3) Determine the details of the 'other' situation to prioritize my attention
4) I use all the VP's as much as possible to investigate the different situations(providing they are totally competent) & extra hall supervisionetc, ALSO send an engineer or custodial staff to deal with the locks.
5) It's likely the troublemakers are not sticking around, so with administrative prescence and teachers on duty, further disruption should nothappen.
It is my job to maintain a safe and orderly learning environment. I need tobe accessible and appraised of EVERY situation (thus being at the command post) however, I would handle the most urgent to the safety of the staff and students. Once the VP's are back...we debrief and deal with troublemaker informationand with them.
DID I PASS??? SEE MY COMMENTS ABOVE IN CAPS...