All the way up the food chain

     “I don’t know what I do here at Lakeland,” said Kay. Fidgeting and crossing his legs constantly. Tapping his hands simultaneously on the podium.

     “Every day it changes. I had a list on my desk today and didn’t get to any of it,” he said.

     Marc Kay, Lakeland High School’s Assistant Principal, is much more than that. An accredited teacher, and an administrator that many students share a close relationships with.

     “I love the people I work with. I love working with teenagers, ” Kay said about his job.

      Ironically enough for an administrator, he also added, “I hate dealing with disciplinary issues.”

     Kay has to get sick of being at school though, right?

     Guess again.

     Kay has been at school all his life and says he’d continue to go if it didn’t take him away from his family.

The front entrance to Lakeland High School,
Kay's castle. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lakeland_High_School_White_Lake_Michigan.JPG)

     Quite the resume for such a young, dedicated man.

     “Get ready, it’s a long list,” he joked.

     “I went to Birmingham Groves for High School, then to WSU for my teacher’s certificate, MSU for my undergrad, Wayne State for my Master’s, back to U of M for my second Master’s and took some classes over the summer with The University of Phoenix.”

     But the schooling doesn’t stop there. Just the learning.

     As far as teaching goes, Kay taught at a private Jewish school in Farmington, and was a director at a nearby Synagogue.

     Lakeland has had the pleasure of learning from Kay since 1999 and has been taking orders from him on and off since 2003.

     It is great that Kay has stayed happy in the classroom for so long, but this wasn’t always his plan.

     A smart young adult, Kay had planned on being a doctor.

     “I originally was pre-med until I found out I didn’t like college,” he said.

     Though t is clear, others can see he continued to go, just with a lighter weight on his back.

     The lonely professor Kay is not. The tall, thin man with dark hair and a bit of a beer gut has a wife and two children of his own.

     Tying the knot in November of 1991, Kay has become quite the family man. He is significantly close with his father and his sister and has two daughters. An 18 year old and a 14 year old. 

     “The most exciting moment in my life…? Hmm… I gotta say sending my oldest daughter off to college this year,” Kay said.

     When Kay is not busy with school or his family, he likes riding his bike, watching t.v., and traveling. 

     “I would love to go to Australia to experience the different terrain. Besides the states I’ve been to Mexico and Europe.

     Quite the geographer this literature buff is.

     At the end of the day, whether it be learning, teaching, or administrating, Marc Kay has been at school his whole life and isn’t stopping anytime soon. When he’s not at school, he’s spending time with his family, or traveling.

     A pretty normal guy playing such a serious role at Lakeland High School.

     However, the kids enjoy his company and he enjoys theirs. Marc Kay is here to stay.