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We take you to the front office at Lincoln Junior High School in the Columbia Heights section of Washington, DC for a look at a typical day in the life of Carolyn Paris a 21-year veteran of the DC Public Schools. Her title is Administrative Aide, but that doesn't quite capture it. If you think of the front office at Lincoln as a wheel -- Ms. Paris is -- the hub. And a number of the spokes. AND maybe she's also the tread.
CLOSE: Carolyn Paris is the Administrative Aide at Lincoln Multicultural Middle School in Washington DC's Columbia Heights neighborhood. Our series on People Who Work In Washington is produced
by Richard Paul.
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We take you to the front office at Lincoln Junior High School in the Columbia Heights section of Washington, DC for a look at a typical day in the life of Carolyn Paris a 21-year veteran of the DC Public Schools. Her title is Administrative Aide, but that doesn't quite capture it. If you think of the front office at Lincoln as a wheel -- Ms. Paris is -- the hub. And a number of the spokes. AND maybe she's also the tread. CLOSE: Carolyn Paris is the Administrative Aide at Lincoln Multicultural Middle School in Washington DC's Columbia Heights neighborhood. Our series on People Who Work In Washington is produced by Richard Paul.
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IN: Good morning Richard. Take your hat off
OQ: 3:15 they'll be goin' home.
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Review of School Front Office
The chaos of the school office is immediately apparent from Paul's construction of this piece-- the subject can barely get a word in to us, her audience, between demanding children, phones ringing, greeting people. The effectiveness of this piece lies in the way it communicates this juggling of responsibilities, the way in which we depend upon the staff of public schools to accomplish a somewhat super-human collection of tasks.
Mr. Paul's entrance into the piece (presumably a host intro would reveal who he is!), asking questions and offering the subject a summary of the situation, sometimes interrupts the flow of the piece; it also could be just as effective if a minute or two was cut. However, overall, the piece does a great job: with rich sound and characters,
a "secretary" is revealed to be a massively important figure in the school, both to kids and the functioning of the institution.