# New Gig Harbor High School principal promises ‘servant leadership, open door’ **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 16, 2025, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gig-harbor-high-school-principal-promises-servant-leadership-open-door/1024029 "2025-10-16T19:23:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![melaniethewitch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melaniethewitch/32/18930_2.png) [@melaniethewitch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melaniethewitch)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gig-harbor-high-school-principal-promises-servant-leadership-open-door/1024029/21 "2025-10-24T17:26:17Z")
> “His educational philosophy emphasizes the ‘Three Rs: Rigor, Relevance and Relationships, with a strong commitment to creating a culture where all students feel they belong,” ..well I don’t exactly know if he is…but a lot of the teachers there are and have said stuff like “God watches over our class” ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gig-harbor-high-school-principal-promises-servant-leadership-open-door/1024029/22 "2025-10-24T17:28:36Z")
So you go to this school? ---
**Author:** ![melaniethewitch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melaniethewitch/32/18930_2.png) [@melaniethewitch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melaniethewitch)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gig-harbor-high-school-principal-promises-servant-leadership-open-door/1024029/23 "2025-10-24T17:28:55Z")
its eh. I had to switch out after a few days because they were ignoring my [IEP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individualized_Education_Program) and my health was getting damaged. ---
**Author:** ![melaniethewitch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melaniethewitch/32/18930_2.png) [@melaniethewitch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melaniethewitch)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gig-harbor-high-school-principal-promises-servant-leadership-open-door/1024029/24 "2025-10-24T17:29:10Z")
used to about a month ago ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gig-harbor-high-school-principal-promises-servant-leadership-open-door/1024029/25 "2025-10-24T17:30:55Z")
So you went there for a few days, and you don’t know anything about him, and you know that a lot of teachers there say stuff like “God watches over you”? ---
**Author:** ![melaniethewitch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melaniethewitch/32/18930_2.png) [@melaniethewitch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melaniethewitch)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gig-harbor-high-school-principal-promises-servant-leadership-open-door/1024029/26 "2025-10-24T17:31:43Z")
good aritcal ---
**Author:** ![melaniethewitch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melaniethewitch/32/18930_2.png) [@melaniethewitch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melaniethewitch)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gig-harbor-high-school-principal-promises-servant-leadership-open-door/1024029/27 "2025-10-24T17:33:12Z")
…its not a big place see them outside of school, also legally they aren’t allowed to tell us their religion. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gig-harbor-high-school-principal-promises-servant-leadership-open-door/1024029/28 "2025-10-24T17:37:51Z")
Here is some more info on the new Principal: [New Gig Harbor High School principal promises 'servant leadership, open door’ - Gig Harbor Now | A hyperlocal nonprofit newspaper in Gig Harbor](https://www.gigharbornow.org/news/education/new-gig-harbor-high-school-principal-promises-servant-leadership-open-door/) I notice that he went to Grand Canyon University and Pacific Lutheran University, both private Christian institutions. ---
**Author:** ![melaniethewitch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melaniethewitch/32/18930_2.png) [@melaniethewitch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melaniethewitch)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gig-harbor-high-school-principal-promises-servant-leadership-open-door/1024029/29 "2025-10-24T17:38:43Z")
ok thanks ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gig-harbor-high-school-principal-promises-servant-leadership-open-door/1024029/30 "2025-10-24T17:44:20Z")
> [@melaniethewitch](#): > > also legally they aren’t allowed to tell us their religion. I’m not sure that’s true. But it’s certainly a good policy ---
**Author:** ![melaniethewitch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melaniethewitch/32/18930_2.png) [@melaniethewitch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melaniethewitch)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gig-harbor-high-school-principal-promises-servant-leadership-open-door/1024029/31 "2025-10-24T17:45:25Z")
its what I’ve been told but yeah ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gig-harbor-high-school-principal-promises-servant-leadership-open-door/1024029/32 "2025-10-24T18:07:25Z")
Educators are not forbidden, by law, from discussing their own religion in a neutral and non-proselytizing manner. At least, I’m pretty sure it’s OK, else teachers wouldn’t be able to wear cross pendants or Stars of David or what have you. Although I can’t seem to dig up a cite. School policy, of course, may vary from school to school. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gig-harbor-high-school-principal-promises-servant-leadership-open-door/1024029/33 "2025-10-24T18:23:11Z")
> [@melaniethewitch](#): > > uhm… so I orignally had more text but the mods deleted it cuz I didnt understand free use! There was more there, but there wasn’t anything _you_ wrote. No summary for why someone would want to read it. No explanation of why you cared, or what your reaction was, it why you thought others might be interested. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gig-harbor-high-school-principal-promises-servant-leadership-open-door/1024029/34 "2025-10-25T09:10:03Z")
I used to live on Bainbridge Island, about two counties up, and some friends from there relocated to Gig Harbor. Also, I’m a teacher, but not in America. How would you have liked the school to handle your issues differently? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gig-harbor-high-school-principal-promises-servant-leadership-open-door/1024029/35 "2025-10-25T17:38:26Z")
> [@melaniethewitch](#): > > good aritcal Stay in school, kids. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gig-harbor-high-school-principal-promises-servant-leadership-open-door/1024029/36 "2025-10-25T18:47:07Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > I used to live on Bainbridge Island, about two counties up, Some of Gig Harbor is actually Kitsap County, same as Bainbridge. The rest is Pierce, adjacent to Kitsap. (sorry but SDMB rules require nitpiks) ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gig-harbor-high-school-principal-promises-servant-leadership-open-door/1024029/37 "2025-10-25T19:13:21Z")
> [Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/procrustus) [Member](https://boards.straightdope.com/g/Member) > > Some of Gig Harbor is actually Kitsap County, same as Bainbridge. The rest is Pierce, adjacent to Kitsap. (sorry but SDMB rules require nitpiks) Right. I thought Gray’s Harbor County was in there somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2025, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gig-harbor-high-school-principal-promises-servant-leadership-open-door/1024029/38 "2025-10-26T18:32:20Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Some of Gig Harbor is actually Kitsap County, same as Bainbridge. I am a native of Kitsap County and will bear that shame eternally. (I did escape to King County and have lived here for the past 20 years.) ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gig-harbor-high-school-principal-promises-servant-leadership-open-door/1024029/39 "2025-10-27T16:37:56Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Some of Gig Harbor is actually Kitsap County, same as Bainbridge. The rest is Pierce, adjacent to Kitsap. (sorry but SDMB rules require nitpiks) If we’re picking nits, none of Gig Harbor proper is in Kitsap County, and all Bainbridge Island is (not “some” although its residents pretend otherwise). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gig-harbor-high-school-principal-promises-servant-leadership-open-door/1024029.md?page=1)