I worked for many years in the neighborhood; I was a primary school teacher and was very well known. Still, when I go to the restroom, they greet me as Teacher Luis, because that’s how they knew me as a teacher before I became the principal.
And people came over to the principal’s office and I heard them tell the secretary, I’m here to speak to the principal, is Teacher Luis in? I was now the teacher principal. I think it came about naturally, out of necessity at first, but also because we made room for them, you know? People could carry on— The decision would be made at an assembly…