After 28 years with City Schools Decatur, former teacher and principal Mary Mack said this week she’s retiring effective June 30.
Last month Superintendent David Dude outlined a dramatic reorganization of CSD’s administration, and Mack is the second veteran staffer since to announce retirement. Longtime Athletics Director Carter Wilson is also retiring on the same day. But both Wilson and Mack had contemplated retirement for several years, and Wilson had even been part-time since 2014.
“I’ve been to the retirement office three times and changed my mind each time,” Mack said. “Now I think I’m ready to go home and watch ‘The Andy Griffith Show.’ “
Mack, 62, has actually been in education, by her count, 41.46 years. Beginning in 1976 she taught elementary and middle school for 13 years in Jenkins County. She came to Decatur in 1989 and taught two years at the old Fifth Avenue Elementary.
After taking a year off, she became Oakhurst Elementary principal in 1992 when that school had barely over 100 students. (It has 460 today).
Mack was promoted to director of elementary education in 2013 by former Superintendent Phyllis Edwards, one of four superintendents she has served under.
Under the new reorganization, Mack’s job has been retitled to executive director of curriculum and instruction and was posted Wednesday afternoon, Dude said.
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