Austin's New Job

Austin has been the principal at Cardston High School for 2 years. I'm not going to lie, it has been way harder than we thought it would be. In his first 6 weeks, he had to deal with a sexual assault, suicide attempts, pregnant students, students with babies, a lawsuit against the school, theft, drugs, etc. High school kids have adult problems. The staff at the high school is also amazing but tough. The majority of them grew up in Cardston, went to CHS, got their degrees in Lethbridge and have taught in Cardston for their whole career.

An opening for the deputy superintendent came open and Austin applied mostly to acknowledge that he was someday interested in a division position. He knew he didn't really want the job and at the end of his interview they asked if he would accept the job if they offered, and he got choked up and said he didn't think so and that he wasn't really ready to leave the school setting.

A couple weeks later an assistant superintendent over student services position came open. He wasn't going to apply. Then he woke up in the middle of the night with the thought that he was supposed to apply. He tried to push it away and didn't even tell me about it for almost a week. He decided that it might be a good fit because he could still be an advocate for students and that it might be better for our family since he spend millions of hours as the high school principal.

So he applied and got the job.

It is definitely with mixed feelings that he leaves his daily interaction with students.