Hometown boy named new assistant principal at DHS

After spending six years teaching chemistry and physics at Daleville High School, hometown boy Joshua Robertson has been hired as the school’s new assistant principal.

Robertson has been an extremely active member of the teaching staff and also helped coach basketball and football. Although it will be a different type of atmosphere, he feels working as an administrator will give him the opportunity to help in a lot more areas.

“In the classroom you can help 20 to 30 kids that are in front of you, but in an administrator position you have a chance to affect a larger group of people,” he said.

Robertson is a 1995 graduate from Daleville High School who received his graduate degree from the Troy University at Dothan and is currently working on his Ph.D. at Auburn University. He spent five years teaching at Heritage High School in Conyers, Ga., before a position became available at DHS six years ago.

“Daleville’s home for me and this is what I came back home for, to help with the school system and be around family and friends,” he said.

Robertson looks forward to seeing the students on the first day of school and seeing things from a different perspective, but admits it will also be difficult for him.

“That’s gonna be the hardest part — when that bell rings on the first day of school and I’m not in that classroom with those kids — that’s gonna be a little bit different,” he said.

Robertson said his new position will be assisting in a little bit of everything, from daily operations to academic issues, being a support for the teachers and faculty and being a link to the community.