Poway High Principal Scott Fisher Retiring With ‘Mixed Emotions’

Updated 12:27 p.m. Monday with comments from Fisher.

Poway High School Principal Scott Fisher will be retiring at the end of the school year, having made the "really, really difficult" decision to head out while he still loves his job.

"I do so with mixed feelings, mixed emotions," Fisher said. "I think probably the fear of departing something that's been so much a part of my life for so long and it's been successful and it's been here in a community that has embraced me very well.

"The main thing is I felt like the school is in good shape. ...I only wanted to leave when I still felt like I was 100 percent."

Fisher first came to the Poway Unified School District in 1982 as a social science teacher at Poway High School, and has also served as a principal at Mount Carmel High School.

He has been the head of Poway High since 1999, and in education for nearly four decades overall.

The 60-year-old Fisher said his age factored into the decision to retire, adding it just felt like the right time as he thought about it in recent months. Heading a high school, though he loves the job, means he's on-call all of the time, Fisher said.

It'll be nice to leave that behind, he said.

The search for a replacement has not begun, but the position could be posted sometime this week, said Bill Chiment, PUSD's associate superintendent of personnel support services.

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