Last Friday’s headline story in The Washington Examiner was about a DC Public School principal who has been charged with instigating a vicious parking lot beat-down outside her high school’s football stadium. This was a shocking portrayal of three apparently out-of-control administrators who should have known better, behaving in a manner that would be unacceptable among pre-schoolers. When the adults in charge provide such a negative example of self-control, is it any wonder that so many DCPS students have major discipline problems?

According to the police report, Calvin Coolidge High School principal Thelma Jarrett was accused of assault for allegedly telling two of her staff members, “Get her, bitch!” as the trio began hitting and kicking a former school employee, Rashida King-Hicks, in a school parking lot on Nov. 2 during Coolidge’s homecoming festivities.