OCHS
will make decision soon
By MAGGIE
WILLIAMS
Staff Writer
The SBDM
council at Owen County High School has a couple of long days ahead
of them. At their regularly scheduled Monday evening meeting,
the council set a time line and discussed criteria for hiring
a principal for the school.
Shannon Treece, assistant principal, is currently acting as principal
in the wake of Tim Hitzfield’s resignation a week before
school started. She has worked in the Owen County school district
at both the middle and high schools.
The Site-based council will conduct phone interviews with five
applicants tonight. The applicants’ responses and how well
they meet the principal selection criteria will determine who
is called in for face-to-face interviews tomorrow evening. Treece,
who is not a member of the council, said she expects the council
members to make a decision by the end of the week.
Even without a hired leader, Treece said the first few days of
school have gone very well. The freshman center — a new
initiative this year designed to help younger students transition
into the high school — “rolled right along,”
Treece said.
It is Treece’s hope that having freshmen separated from
upperclassmen will encourage both groups of students to achieve
to the best of their potential. “We want to raise expectations
for upperclassmen,” she said.
Turn to The News-Herald next week for more information about the
high school’s search for a new principal.
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