BEEP. BEEP. BEEP. 7:00 in the morning is the start of a normal day for senior Ara Aliyari, who makes it out of the house by 7:15 at the earliest for first period every day. Those days add up to months, and then in a flash it’s the final year of high school – it's all over.  Most people look forward to senior year for many reasons; it's so close to freedom. While it has its ups and...

This piece is the sixth in a feature series for National Assistant Principals Week. Read the rest here. A distinct change passes over Associate Principal Matthew Warren’s face as he crosses the impending Brazos River—still beneath the underfoot bridge—his self-appointed landmark. In that brief moment, Warren shifts from family mode to the administrator the students know best, two antithetic...