Page 52 - Time Magazine-November 05, 2018

‘When I
became a

principal,
Ididn’tthink

I would be
going to

funerals.
Ididn’t think

that I would
be going to

wakes and
I would
THE PRINCIPAL be telling

In one 15-month stretch,
Tammatha Woodhouse lost parents
seven of her students at
Baltimore’s Excel Academy I’m sorry.’
high school to gun violence.
Woodhouse, 49, moved this
summer to run Renaissance
Academy, another Baltimore
high school. She’ll never
forget her first hospital visit
to see a student who had
been shot. He had a bullet
wound in the middle of his
head. This was Woodhouse’s
first exposure to gun violence,
which she now describes as
an epidemic.

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