Our Acting School Director

We love Guilherme, our acting principal since our previous school director was promoted to chief administrator in a neighboring post last trimester. He’s a hard worker, showing up every morning, afternoon, and evening. Unlike so many other administrators that look the other way, Guilherme calls people out when they blatantly flaunt the rules or egregiously fail to meet their duties. He loves calling students out during morning assembly. Last week he publicly humiliated a student who had been posing as a tenth grader even though he failed both eighth and ninth grades. Guilherme had discovered the fraud during the laborious review process, which would be so easy if our transcripts were digitized and not in huge stacks of folders in the corner of the teachers lounge. He’s not afraid of teachers either, pointing out how several colleagues had merely signed the term book documenting their teaching after only a brief chit chat with the students instead of the full 45 minutes of instruction. Last faculty meeting he told us how teachers were not using the latrine correctly and that there would be consequences if he found any more pools of urine on the cement floor. Guilherme really made things happen for Janet’s construction project. The entire community respects him, especially students (we still have corporal punishment here). He’s also the heart of our teacher’s soccer team. So even though he has his character flaws and is an alcoholic, we love working with him.