Bad news for students and parents in the Lakewood-Long-Woodrow feeder pattern: J.L. Long principal Dr. Jennifer Jones has resigned due to health reasons, according to an email passed along from Jennifer Schmieder, Long PTA’s vice president. Apparently, Dr. Jones is facing major — but not life-threatening — surgery and felt it would be in the school’s best interest for her to step down. Dr. Jones’ father is a former Long principal, and she had talked openly about hoping to stay at the school indefinitely. And during the year she led the school — she was the third principal at Long in the four years our two sons attended the school — discipline problems dwindled and student and parent enthusiasm for the school seemed to be on the upswing. DISD expects to appoint an interim principal shortly while also launching a search for a replacement.