Submitted by Tamara Shepherd on Wed, 2007/02/14 - 5:29pm.
This happens a lot, I've learned. Just in my own community of Powell:
One of Powell Middle's principals, Janice Brown, is married to the principal at Holston Middle. Another Powell Middle teacher, Mrs. Kemp, is wife to the Vine Middle principal. A Powell Elementary teacher, Candy Parker, is wife to Adrian Burnett principal Adam Parker. Another Powell Elementary teacher, Jill Cooper, is sister to Dogwood Elementary principal, Lana Lowe. A Karns Middle teacher, Jane Buckner, is sister to former Powell High principal, Eddie McLemore, and Eddie's deceased wife, Carole McLemore, taught at Powell Elementary until her death.
I am also aware of Powell-area teachers whose spouses teach or are principals in surrounding school systems.
Where marital relationships are concerned, it may be, then, that these "teaching personalities" are just drawn to one another? In the other instances, maybe families spawn "teaching siblings" as the result of a shared family ethic in support of education?
Personally, I don't make too much of it, especially since, in the instances I know about, these family members are working in different schools or even school systems.
And, of course, it's not like the school system is even able to hire unqualified people--a great deal of specific training is required to become a teacher or a principal, either one.
All school system personnel records are open to the public, I believe.
This happens a lot, I've learned. Just in my own community of Powell:
One of Powell Middle's principals, Janice Brown, is married to the principal at Holston Middle. Another Powell Middle teacher, Mrs. Kemp, is wife to the Vine Middle principal. A Powell Elementary teacher, Candy Parker, is wife to Adrian Burnett principal Adam Parker. Another Powell Elementary teacher, Jill Cooper, is sister to Dogwood Elementary principal, Lana Lowe. A Karns Middle teacher, Jane Buckner, is sister to former Powell High principal, Eddie McLemore, and Eddie's deceased wife, Carole McLemore, taught at Powell Elementary until her death.
I am also aware of Powell-area teachers whose spouses teach or are principals in surrounding school systems.
Where marital relationships are concerned, it may be, then, that these "teaching personalities" are just drawn to one another? In the other instances, maybe families spawn "teaching siblings" as the result of a shared family ethic in support of education?
Personally, I don't make too much of it, especially since, in the instances I know about, these family members are working in different schools or even school systems.
And, of course, it's not like the school system is even able to hire unqualified people--a great deal of specific training is required to become a teacher or a principal, either one.
All school system personnel records are open to the public, I believe.