Andrew Berman
Back Page Editor
October 23, 2018
Q. How did you get interested in education?
A. My parents always pushed education with me and all my siblings, so it’s just something we knew when we were young.
Q. What was your first job in Howard County? When?
A. Oakland Mills as a teacher in 2003.
Q. What was your favorite part about your old schools? Least favorite?
A. I’ve been in a lot of schools over a lot of years; you can tell I’m old. But every school has great things and things that I’d like to change. Narrowing it down to one sentence, the schools have had some great people and great kids and great things.
Q. What are your responsibilities as an assistant principal?
A. I am in charge of the building, so when anything happens with the building, it comes to me. I’m also in charge of transportation. We all share things like lunch duty, hall duty, and supervising all the after-school activities. In terms of departments, I’m working with math and science so I oversee those areas.
Q. What sports teams do you like?
A. Huge Capitals fan. You will see my key-chain that has the Capitals on it. I was born in Washington.
Q. What is your go-to activity on the weekend?
A. Well, I’m a parent, so it’s shuttling kids back and forth to soccer games for the most part.
Q. What is the craziest thing a teacher has done since you’ve been a principal?
A. That’s a question I probably can’t answer. Let’s just put it this way: I’ve been around a long time, and I’ve seen a lot of crazy things.
Q. What is the order of MLA heading?
A. Oh, I have no idea. Come on, you’re going to really mess me up with this, trying to make me look bad. That wasn’t around when I was in high school.
Q. What is the quadratic formula?
A. Square root of B Squared minus 2 AC, all over 2A. I get partial credit.
Q. What is our newspaper called?
A. I haven’t seen it yet. I haven’t actually seen a copy. How often does it come out?
Q. At what store would you like to max out your credit card?
A. Dick’s Sporting Goods.
Q. What is your favorite cereal?
A. You know, I have not eaten a bowl of cereal in over 20 years. I just stopped eating it a long time ago.
Q. One word that describes you?
A. Tall.
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