Former North Charleston High principal to return to lead charter school
The most recent principal who had success in leading North Charleston High plans to return to Charleston County to head the Charleston Charter School for Math & Science.
David Colwell, who worked at North Charleston High for 18 years as a teacher, athletic director, assistant principal and principal, left the district two years ago to take a principal job at a rural, high poverty school in Lenoir, N.C.
He grew up in North Carolina and hoped to retire there with his wife, but the desire to be closer to his aging parents and the opening at the charter school prompted Colwell to investigate the possibility of returning home.
"It represented an opportunity to come back and work in Charleston but not have to work in the box that I call Charleston County School District," he said. "... (The district) became a very, very cumbersome bureaucracy."
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bunting (anonymous) says...
Help me understand this. This guy is coming back to Charleston...but not to North Charleston High School? Did the district not at least attempt to get him back? Unbelievable.
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