Retiring Staff Q&A
Questions:
1. What do you plan to do in retirement?
2. What’s your favorite memory at RV?
3. How many years have you taught?
4. Why did you originally want to become a teacher?
5.What is most rewarding about teaching so
many students?
6. What do you think students should do to
prepare for college that the school may not
be doing enough of?
Mr. George Barker
Science Teacher
Ms. Becky Schipper
Counselor
Ms. Kethleen Lacy
Assistant Principal
1) Ski, Cooking, and possibly guiding tours and scuba diving.
1) Travel; both in and out of the
United States.
2) I have so many great memories,
but my favorite has to be our state
contending boys golf team.
2) All of the wonderful kids.
1) I hope to spend a little more time
with my family, and hope to work
part-time in some other capacity…
eventually travel.
3) I have taught for 29 years, and 7
of those have been here at RV.
4) I was a teacher prior to becoming
a councilor and i just thought it was a
different aspect of education.
4) I started out by going to CU for
medical school, but after being a
councilor at a summer camp with
kids being a science teacher seemed
like a good middle ground.
5) Giving success to kids not doing
well in school, and pushing the excellent students to be even better.
6) More emphasis on volunteering,
and to be more active within the
community, so you are more than
just good grades.
3) About 20 years.
5) Seeing them all graduate at the end
of their senior year.
6) Outside of school the kids need to
be on all the different websites that
we provide or that they could google,
and find as much information as they
can about how they want to be educated after high school.
2) Either the state championship or
the driven leadership retreat a couple
years ago.
3) I’ve been here for 3 years. Prior to
that I was at Chatfield for 22 years,
and before I was at Carmandy. So, in
total 32 years.
4) I decided in 5th grade I wanted to
be a teacher, and I liked earth science
in 7th grade, and stuck to that.
5) When kids come back after they
have graduated, and thank you; and
just to see that what you taught that
was applicable in the real world.
6) Learn to be independent and make
choices for themselves. Also, some
community service, because it gives
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them those skills.