Thoughts on 11/8

As the group was presenting on handbooks and talking about scenario's that can occur, I was thinking that as a principal, you really have to understand that anything can happen, no matter how ludicrous you may think it is. For instance, we had an incident in the lunchroom a couple weeks ago where the son of a lunch lady was involved in an altercation with another student. The son got knocked to the ground, and his mom, the lunch lady stepped in and smacked the other kid, knocking him to the ground. I could not imagine this in my wildest dreams, yet it happened. Now, as a principal, what a mess to deal with ecause now you may have to fire an employee, deal with the parents, and probably deal with litigation. I understand now that anything can happen.