Rodney White is the fourteenth Principal of Paschal High School. He also has the honor and possible burden of following a very popular Principal. And he has the distinction of being the first African American Principal of Paschal High School in its 140-year history. (Paschal began as Central High School in 1885) To state the obvious, he is a trailblazer.
Principal Rodney White is 49 years old and was brought up in Abilene, Texas. He attended elementary, middle, high school, and college in Abilene. He also did a bit of elementary school in Germany. His father was an airplane technician. He moved to Fort Worth in 2000. His first principal’s job was at Glencrest 6th-grade center. Glencrest was considered a turn-around school which meant that it was struggling to achieve state test result recommendations.
Then, with a turn around campus added to his resume, he was given the opportunity to open The Young Men’s Leadership Academy in 2012…