Amy Hook submitted her request for resignation to the school board, which was approved at the meeting on Tuesday, March 11. Hook will continue as a guidance counselor until the end of the school year. 

She has worked in education for 12 years, the last three of which were spent at Shorewood High School. Before that, Hook worked for nine years in California, first as a German and Math teacher, then later as a guidance counselor.

“I enjoyed working with teenagers, but I could not see myself teaching math for the rest of my life,” Hook said.

For the second time in five months, the candidate chosen for SHS principal has decided not to take the job at this time.
Melissa Thompson, assistant principal at Waukesha South High School, would have been the new principal but changed her mind to finish research for her dissertation.
Thompson, who applied for the job in October, said she didn’t want to have to be gone for three weeks at the beginning of her new job to do her research, which she didn’t know she would have to do when she applied. She and Shorewood Schools Superintendent Blane McCann couldn’t come to an agreement about the timeframe, she added, but did agree that it wasn’t the right time for her to start as principal.
“I’m a little disappointed but I don’t want to hire someone just to hire someone,” said McCann. “Sometimes the face of the school district is seen in the face of the high school principal.”