Culture(#8)

There are different cultures everywhere you look even if you don't notice, for example a Junior High School on the Bronx. Junior High 22 in the Bronx is a mainly black and hispanic school, they had gone through six principlas in about 2 years. When they brought in their seventh they thought it was just the same thing and that as the students they would remain in control of the school. But this was a different case. In 2004 Shimon Waronker, a part of the Chabad-Lubavitch sect of Hasidic Judaism, was named the seventh principal of the school. He did not hide his religion going into this culturally different school, he had his beard and wore a black hat and a velvet yarmulke. When the school met him the talk of the students and faculty was ‘You’re not going to believe who’s running the show’. With their new principal everything changed grades and attendance went up 93 percent. He created a student congress so they could learn about leadership, he got leadership books for every student. Although he did have his obsticles like getting gang culture out of the school and keeping the school from closing, with his leadership the school showed vast improvements. People though that Shimon Waronker religion and the students culture was too different and this would be a disaster but all those who doubted were wrong. I read the article "In Bronx School, Culture Shock, Then Revival" by Elissa Goodman at nytimes.com.
Goodman, Elissa. "In Bronx School, Culture Shock, The Revival". February 8 2008. February 25 2009. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/nyregion/08principal.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&sq=culture&st=cse&scp=10.