Newly-appointed Mathews Schools Superintendent Dr. David Daniel delivered a welcome address to teachers and other school employees during the division’s annual convocation, held on Wednesday, Aug. 16 at Mathews High School.
Daniel, who had stepped into the position just six weeks earlier, jokingly said that West Point Public Schools, his former employer, was an “enemy” of Mathews Public Schools, but that he took some pride in the fact that while serving as a principal at West Point, he had helped to “make it an entity that played nice in the sandbox.”
“I hope you find me to be a collaborative, relationship-based person,” he said.
During a brief slide show, Daniel outlined his career in education, saying his 23rd birthday had been on the first day of school in his first year of teaching, and that he spent the next seven years teaching social studies and coaching cross country and girls’ soccer.
“Coaching helped me as much as teaching did,” he said, adding that lessons can be learned whe...