I just learned that Oct. 5 is World Teachers Day and immediately started thinking about what we could do to show appreciation for our son Harvey’s incredible educators. As a longtime teacher fan, my mind wandered, and I started imagining all of the things I really wish we could offer all of the educators in our state.
See, my parents moved to Utah in 1977 to share a single teaching internship (for a total of $9,000) after they graduated from Indiana University. They went on to get full-time positions, my mom in the “young mothers/pregnant teens program” in Ogden and my dad in the “gifted underachievers” program, before they both taught for Washington Alternative High School the year it opened.