New school
chiefs confident
PHOTO BY JEFF ROSLOW
Angela Gordon and her husband, Pete, sit in the crowd at the school's basketball game against Southwest Middle. Gordon has started as principal at the school this year.
PHOTO BY JEFF ROSLOW
Angela Gordon and her husband, Pete, sit in the crowd at the school's basketball game against Southwest Middle. Gordon has started as principal at the school this year.
PHOTO BY STEVE STEINER
Bryant Joyner (left) and Angela Gordon listen as a parent speaks to them of a concern she has regarding her child.
Joyner is the new assistant principal, and Gordon the new principal at Bartow Middle School.
This past school year, when several Polk County Public Schools dropped to a D on the FCATs, something had to be done if the Schools System did not want any of them possibly sinking to a failing grade for the 2012-13 school year. Were that to occur, the state would take over running the school, a prospect no one even wanted to consider. One such school on the brink was Bartow Middle School.
However, the challenge of turning around a school’s fortunes appeared to be a daunting task. But there were people the school system administration had confidence in; people they knew had already turned low performing schools into high achievers. Hence Angela Gordon and Bryant Joyner were assigned to BMS as its new principal and assistant principal, respectively.
