Last week I talked about my appointment as principal and the challenges I faced. Today let me talk about how I handled them. For the gross indiscpline and late coming, I made sure there was some punishment for late coming. It wasn't there before. Wasn't something harsh, no flogging but strong enough to send the message across. And it stopped. I now also decided to make the assembly time an interesting one. I had some outlines from my church Bible studies then that had stories of people in history who made some mark like Abraham Lincoln and the rest. So each day after the regular assembly i read those stories to them and insipired them. That also helped reduce the late coming as they were always eager to always listen to those stories. Then school fees owed. It was tough. I worked hand in hand with the headmaster on this. We sent them home and also met with some of the parents who told us why they had challenges paying. We designed a system for those of them who w