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New York Giants draft pick Matt Peart reflects on the value of having relatives as school teachers

Positives and negatives arise when a relative is your school teacher. Trust me, my father was actually my geometry teacher in eighth grade (luckily I did well).

But just the one year I experienced doesn’t even compare to what Matt Peart lived through. From kindergarten through the third grade, the New York Giants third-round selection respectively had his grandmother, aunt, mother, and another aunt as his teachers. It was extremely unique, but ultimately, an experience that introduced value.

“Nothing was given to me,” Peart told Jackson Thompson of Sports Illustrated. “It actually made everything a little harder because they expected me to get everything and then some.