Nazareth School Official to Be Bangor High Principal

A Nazareth school official is moving to the Slate Belt.

Tamara Gary, the director of curriculum for Nazareth Area School District, will be welcomed as Bangor Area High School's new principal come April 1, according to a report in The Express-Times.

Bangor's school board approved the hire Monday night. Gary is the school's former assistant principal, the report added.

Back in November, Gary stood her ground when Nazareth Area School Board member Chris Miller questioned whether students were getting enough of a dose of history, particularly local history.

Gary, a former social studies teacher, told Miller she is confident students are getting strong exposure to history and that the district has a strong advanced placement history program in the high school.

Gary rattled off statistics about how history is taught in the district. For instance, local history is taught in third grade, while teachers in higher grades—not only in history but in other subjects such as art—try to take advantage of local history groups and historical places to help bring to life topics like the Civil War.

”Social studies is not a forgotten thing,” Gary said after the meeting.

Gary will earn $110,000 a year in her new position, according to The Express-Times report.