A Headmistress ?
When I was a kid I attended a small independent private school called Ridgewood. It was established to serve the kids in the fledgling Ridgewood community pioneered by Harry Kissel & recognized by Theodore Roosevelt. Shortly after I started there they moved out to a rural area on the edge of the Springfield Country Club who allowed the students to use their hillsides for sledding in the winter. Probably more than half the kids there were members anyway. On the other side of the school was a cow pasture. The fragrant aromas wafting through the breeze made us all long for winter.
The school didn't have a principal, it had a headmaster. He was a mean old bastard if you were an asshole & a kind and nurturing teacher if you showed any common sense. I remember him as a mean old bastard mainly. ~ahem~ He was a Methodist minister and taught math, Latin & German. His wife taught science & taught a kind of intelligent design. It wasn't the closed minded fundamentalist crap being pushed today.
The school had a student body of about 100. With the small classes there was no room for mischief. There was a very active PTA and it was not uncommon for kids to find a teacher at the dinner table. Every morning, assembling in the gymnasium, we recited the Lord's Prayer & the Pledge of Allegiance.
When I first attended a public school I was terrified by the other kids behavior. I also learned that, after years of being taunted by public school kids for going to a "retard" school, I was about a year or two ahead of most of the public school kids.
Ohio’s oldest independent private school has a new headmaster now, a headmistress actually (headperson ?), who comes from a Catholic school background. Not sure what the old headmaster would have thought of that....
Noose Son story here.