Assistant principal resigns after not reporting DUI

<p>The assistant principal of a high school has resigned after failing to report a drunken driving charge he received last month.</p><p>Fenton Lewis Dixon resigned Wednesday from Northside High School, a day after the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reported his Jan. 19 arrest for drunken driving. Educators are required to report arrests to the Muscogee County school district within five days of the charge.</p><p>Dixon, 52, could not immediately be reached for comment.</p><p>According to a police report, an officer caught Dixon and another man urinating on the side of a building in downtown Columbus. The officer said both men smelled of alcohol and appeared to be "highly intoxicated."</p><p>After the officer warned them against urinating in public, Dixon got in a vehicle and drove several blocks before being pulled over by the officer.</p><p>Dixon was named assistant principal at Northside in 2002 and previously had taught social studies and coached tennis at Shaw High School.</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x1cd9abc)</p>