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Happy editing! Cheers,  Julietdeltalima   (talk)  20:15, 30 July 2023 (UTC)

Really easy fix to the "current" problem...
"As of July 2023, the principal was Kari Flippo and the assistant principals were Mark Fleetwood and Lauren Woltjen."

This is an ongoing reference work: "currently" is never helpful, because somebody might have written that in 2007 (20 years after I graduated from Grissom) and nobody might ever have updated it!  Julietdeltalima   (talk)  20:19, 30 July 2023 (UTC)


 * thank you! sorry, I'm new to how pages are supposed to be constructed DaughterOfGiants (talk) 21:02, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
 * You're okay! There are a lot of Wikipedia functions and codes to learn, and there are also a lot of things about encyclopedic writing to learn that I am certain you haven't been taught in the Huntsville City Schools (because I didn't learn them until college and law school). The fewer words you can use to communicate, the better. (I just edited "Witnesses gave testimony at a court hearing" to "Witnesses testified"). Avoid marketing/social influencer buzzwords ("solutions" for anything ["software solutions"] not having to do with chemistry; "impacted" when you mean "affected"; "one-year anniversary" when you mean "first anniversary"; etc.). Thanks for getting out here and trying! -  Julietdeltalima   (talk)  21:20, 30 July 2023 (UTC)