Sytha Beth Ortiz
News Editor
The office air was bubbly as secretaries and assistants bustled around, carrying the whispers and laughs around the room. Jason Christian sat in his office with the door open, often commenting on the activities taking place in the office and laughing as a life size stuffed teddy bear waltzed by his door. The vacant position of Vice Principal was filled with a familiar friendly face.The previous Assistant Principal has been promoted to Vice Principal and is excited to take on the job.
“The cool thing about being a Vice Principal is that no two days are ever alike. As Vice Principal, your day is defined by the different activities that are going on that day.Whether you may need to be out in classes or a discipline issue takes you away, it could be one of 15 different things, but everyday is different.That’s what I love about the job.When you come to work you never know what the day will hold and that’s really cool because you never know,” Christian said. Although the position of Vice Principal has its perks, the job is not to be taken lightly.
“My main duty is to overall make sure the students are safe. I am over the board of other assistant principals so making sure that we are all on the same page as far as discipline, going out and helping the teachers with any kind of problems they are having, and making sure that overall it’s a good experience for students here at O’Connor,” Christian said.
While Vice Principal is an exciting and challenging new job, Christian will miss requirements of the job as Assistant Principal.
“With the old position, you got to work a lot more with the student discipline, more one on one with the students, and in this new position, I won’t get to do that as much and there are many different reasons that it’s set up that way but that’s probably what I’ll miss the most, just a lot of one on one interactions with the students’ discipline because I used that as a springboard to help me build relationships with some students who were going the wrong way and then helping them through the rest of their high school career,” Christian said.
Although Christian still works with the occasional student, the position of Vice Principal has different duties.
“So as Vice Principal we have a lot more interaction with teachers and you deal a lot more with teacher problems than what you do as assistant principal. As Assistant Principal you deal a lot more with students issues and student problems and as Vice Principal it’s more teacher and parent issues.That’s the big overall difference between the two,” Christian said.
While the two position have their differences, Christian’s visions remain the same.