Q: What is your education history?
A: I was a teacher for almost 30 years in Beech Grove. I taught second grade for those 30 years, mostly title one kids that need the extra support. Before that, I graduated from IUPUI, and before that, I graduated from Decatur Central.
Q: What college did you go to, and what did you major in?
A: Indiana University at Indianapolis, and I majored in Elementary Education.
Q: How did you end up at SHS?
A: My kids graduated from here. I had a daughter that graduated in 2012, (my) son graduated in 2015 and I was PTA president at Clinton Young, at the sixth grade academy, at the middle school and here. Then, this part time job opened up after I retired from teaching and I thought, ‘That’s a cool way,’ but I couldn’t take it as long as my kids were here. They wouldn’t allow me to.
Q: When did you start working here?
A: I’ve been here ten years.
Q: How do you like your position now?
A: My position has changed a lot, because it used to just be selling spirit wear, pencils and pens, and all that kind of stuff, but with chromebooks, nobody needs pencils and pens and all that stuff anymore. All the teens do their own spirit wear, so I sell very little spirit wear. So in the beginning of this year, they put chromebooks in here, so I had to learn all about chromebooks because I knew nothing about chromebooks.
Q: What is your favorite thing about SHS and why?
A: I just love being with the kids. It just helps me remember my good days of teaching.
Q: What are some of the challenges of your position and how do you deal with these?
A: Some of the challenges are trying to (do) multiple things at once, (like) trying to do prom tickets at the same time I’m trying to work on computers. That was a really heavy thing the last three weeks, because I get pulled multiple ways. But it keeps me busy, (and) it makes the day go fast. So there’s really no challenges. The kids are different because I’m used to working with 7 (and) 8-year-olds, and now I work with 15, 16 (and) 17-year-olds.
Q: What’s everything you do for SHS?
A: I do this job, but I also do things for the principal (and) for the assistant principals. I take care of the STARS program for the top percentages of the seniors that are graduating. You name it, I do it. They just bring it to me and I do it, because now I have extra time because STARS is over, prom is over and we’re rolling down on the chromebooks now.
