English teacher Alivia Grinder previously worked in Lovelock, Nevada, At Pershing county High school. This is her third year teaching, two years at Lovelock, one year here.
“I always wanted to go to school here because my family went to school here…. So when I heard there was a job opening I wanted to work here because it was always full of family.”
A heartfelt and touching explanation of why she decided to work here. Compared to her previous school this school is bigger, and it’s filled with community, people here are much closer than at her old school.
“My favorite thing, I guess I never really thought about it…, I really like how welcoming and helpful the staff have been. Better staff culture.”
Hearing how amazing they’ve been shouldn’t be a surprise to those who have been here a while. And as most of us have lived here our whole lives, or most of our lives, it’s hard to think about teachers that were not as welcoming, but that was just the case for Mrs Grinder’s old school staff.
“Helpful but because it was such a tight knit group being new was hard. They were still helpful but they had already made all their friends kind of.”
Her biggest challenge has been coming from a smaller school to a much bigger one, she responds with, The different diversity of students.
“At my old school most of the kids were Native, Hispanic or white, and most of them were from farms. There’s definitely a lot more types of people at this school.”
Of course that’s not a bad thing, but I’m sure having a much larger range of students has been challenging for a number of reasons.
Her biggest gripe currently is Phones. The use of phones during lessons or not permitted (use).
“When I’m trying to teach the lesson and you guys are supposed to be taking notes but you guys are on snapchat or just goofing off.”
