Demitria Lawton-GreggsOn Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I talked over the phone with Demitria Lawton-Greggs, principal of Flower City School No. “You don’t have to decide everything right away.” She worked at Toys “R” Us during that time—where she met her future husband—balancing school, work, and uncertainty. “I wanted students to experience more than the regular curriculum.”Those experiences mattered academically as well. “I’m young. “For students, you’re a mother figure, an aunt, a big sister.