ATHENS–When Clay Tracy was a student at Kingwood High School, he was neither a struggling nor a star student. “I fell through the cracks in a sense,” he said. “There were so many students that there were plenty of days nobody would really notice whether I was there or not.”

No doubt that’s one of the reasons Tracy, the man just chosen to be principal at Athens High School in the coming school year, has a strong desire for all the students he serves “to feel valued.”

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