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More on Debbie Phelps

Stafford Palmieri
8.21.2008

We discovered last week that not only is Debbie Phelps the principal of Windsor Mill Middle School in Maryland, but that Windsor Mill didn't make AYP last year. And only recently home from Beijing, school starts on Monday for Principal Phelps. We trust that the experience of spawning the most celebrated swimmer in history will assist her in making the transition to principal of six-hundred hormone-crazed tweens. Perhaps her recent crowning as Johnson's Baby Mom of the Olympic Games by Johnson & Johnson and subsequent TV ad (comes out on Sunday) will inspire her. It seems appropriate since the campaign, which will donate to a group of global charities in Debbie Phelps' name, chose her because "Debbie represents every mother that has helped her child to succeed." We hope that success reaches into her middle school classrooms.

Tags: Beijing Maryland Olympic Games
Stafford Palmieri
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