| October, 2016| KNIGHTWRITERS 01
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Fall fashion trends
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Is dress code objective?
Principal Bhoolai Remarks on New Rules students. We’ve just been enforcing [the no headphone policy] from day one so that everyone knows the policy is: you can use your phone to text but not to talk or use headphones.”
l.hill Principal Bhoolai greeting the 2020 class at the opneinhg assembly.
By Madison Flower Editor in Cheif
KnightWriters Co-Editor-in-Chief Madison Flowers sat down with Principal Robert Bhoolai to talk about the new policies and rules that have come to effect during his first semester as principal. His comments on various issues are quotedin this article. How his principalship
has affected the school: “When you talk about a new principal, you’re really talking about a new way of doing business because the principal is the instructional leader of the campus. There haven’t been many changes as of right now because [I] have to observe to see what is going on, see what’s going well [and] see what teachers are doing well
and where they need support before [I] can start making changes.” Headphones: “My understanding is that headphones were never allowed, the policy was just never enforced. So we didn’t actually change the policy, we just enforced it, based on feedback from the teachers. … Over the summer we look at the discipline
Anything Can Be Art Robinson’s faculty has for years come up with brilliant ideas, to promote important causes in various ways, but just how do you mix art and with the theme of keeping our school clean? Which is just what Mary Wilson did. “I thought about this project on my first seven years of teaching, and now I’m on my 29th year now. My goal was to get the public more educated about art history and famous art work. By doing so I thought why not have a co theme of unifying the environment through art. Than I thought, why not put the art on something that everyone uses
data to see what kind of incidents the students are getting in and how much trouble they’re getting in as a result of that. And one of the things we saw [was] a lot of cases of disobedience because of headphones. The teachers felt like they were spending a lot of time arguing with kids and, contrary to popular belief, we don’t like to argue with
Locking the gates: “Every principal has a different outlook on things and they have different things they highlight in their principalship, and one of the things that I take very seriously is campus safety and student safety. No one wants to be that adult that’s in charge of the school if something bad goes down and rules and procedures were not implemented properly.” Warning bells: “Students were complaining when they came through the front office for tardies, they said, “Hey, I had no idea I had thirty seconds I thought
I had two minutes.” So [student affairs’] idea was to add a warning bell to let students know they have sixty seconds left before the actual bell rings. It’s actually been working really well. Obviously, the more seat time you guys have, the better prepared you are going to be for your exams and things.” Dress code: “In my mind, dress code is something that is certainly suggestive and it’s not objective all the time because my idea of dress code might be different than your idea of dress code and the rules we read regarding district dress code you might interpret one way and I do another. My big thing, as the principal, is I don’t want you to have to walk down the sidewalk and see someone’s underwear…” Continued on page 2.
By Mariano Heranadez Staff Writer
which is a trash can.” Wilson said. Mary Wilson teamed up with the amazing group of “Las Damas” a local organization in Tampa all about art. “The whole project was funded by the Las Damas, which is a woman’s artist group. They give out a teacher grant every year and it allowed us to take on this challenge and raise awareness.” Wilson said. Las Damas for those of you whom don’t know is a organization of art, they host events and just like Mary Wilson, they take it upon themselves to teach the public about art history. They give out teacher grants and help out students in many ways. It allows the students to get an opportunity at receiving scholarships.
Robinson is not only known for its great education programs but also for their internal beauty of the school. Not presenting Robinson in the best way possible, would give the wrong representation to many of the parents analyzing the quality school for their children. Accepting this great challenge very much so did help raise awareness to keeping our school and many other places clean.
Mary Wilson in her classroom.