{"id":15,"date":"2020-07-24T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richland.k12.la.us\/dms\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2025-07-22T07:56:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T12:56:17","slug":"principal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/richland.k12.la.us\/dms\/index.php\/principal\/","title":{"rendered":"Principal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Mr. Edward Parks<br>eparks@richland.k12.la.us<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Principal Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a school leader, it is my goal to enhance student learning and engagement as a transformative experience. I want students to feel personally challenged\u00a0 by the high level of instruction that they receive in class on a daily basis. Promoting and understanding that education will enhance and create a field of\u00a0 opportunities that can be life changing for families.\u00a0 I want students to sharpen their communication skills, critical thinking skills, their ability to reason, and the task of problem solving to prepare them for any type of limitation they may face in life. I believe that the more a child is educated, the more courage a child has to help them make challenging and difficult decisions that prepares them for the real world. Educating school leaders, teachers, students, and parents helps remove barriers, whether personal or social,\u00a0 that may prohibit us from moving forward as a community, state, and even as a nation.\u00a0 The more education that we receive the better off we are as a society because this eliminates the excuse of not knowing.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Edward Parks, Principal<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Delhi Middle School<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Edward Parkseparks@richland.k12.la.us Principal Statement As a school leader, it is my goal to enhance student learning and engagement as a transformative experience. I want students to feel personally challenged\u00a0 by the high level of instruction that they receive in <a href=\"https:\/\/richland.k12.la.us\/dms\/index.php\/principal\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richland.k12.la.us\/dms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richland.k12.la.us\/dms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richland.k12.la.us\/dms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richland.k12.la.us\/dms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richland.k12.la.us\/dms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/richland.k12.la.us\/dms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/richland.k12.la.us\/dms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richland.k12.la.us\/dms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}