For one Texas school, the start of the new school year included an unexpected delivery.
Amy Simmons, the principal of Cunningham Elementary School in Wichita Falls, Texas, and one of her teachers, Ashley Strain, helped deliver a fellow teacher’s baby in the school’s bathroom.
“Obviously, neither one of us have done that before,” Simmons told “Good Morning America” of the unexpected first in her 23rd year of working in education.
Simmons said she was leading a job interview on Aug. 28, when she received a text message from Strain letting her know that one of her classroom aides, Paige Lockstedt, was not feeling well.
At the time, Lockstedt was 30 weeks pregnant with her second child, according to Strain and Simmons.
Simmons said she responded to Strain to send her aide home, and was starting to type a second message recommending Lockstedt go to the doctor’s office when Strain called her phone.
“Ms. Strain called and told me that Paige’s water …