New Faces Will Show Up as Some of Our Favorite Faces Leave
By Nikhil Krishnan
Schutz’s family has always been a changing family: senior students tend to commence their journey to college life while new recruits for pre-K 3 students enter the Schutz gates. Teachers follow a very similar pattern and tend to move on in their career. This year, unfortunately, several teachers are going to bid farewell to Schutz and Schutz will have several new teachers initiating their journey at Schutz next year. The teachers that are going to leave by the end of this year are the Meleks, the Wavrins, the Spurlocks, the Collins, Kelly and Mr. Blankinship.
On the other hand, we have a number of new faces who will teach at Schutz next year. Ms. Carrie Danziger will be replacing Mr. Robert Blankinship to teach Upper School Science. Ms. Jessica Koch will replace Mr. Seth Spurlock and teach Math. Mr. Benjamin Dunbar will replace Ms. Melek and teach upper school English. Mr. William “Joe” Donahue will teach High School math, replacing Ms. Kelly Sullivan. Ms. Kathryn Smith will be teaching upper school social studies, replacing Mr. Collins. Mr. Joshua Pickell will replace coach Melek and teach Physical Education next year. In the lower school, Ms. Penny Johnson will replace Mr. Mike Wavrin in teaching the 5th grade.
Moreover, several members of the staff are going to be changing positions for the next year. Mr. Ortega, who was teaching the Kindergarten class along with Ms. Maie Abou Gad, will be teaching the 2nd grade next year. Ms. Sara Salem will start teaching the Pre-K 3 class next year. Ms. Nawal Selim, who is teaching Pre-K 3 this year, will be teaching the 1st grade next year replacing Ms. Barb Hultman. Ms. Randa Shoeb who has been teaching 7th and 8th grade language arts, will now shift from teaching to administration by becoming the lower school principal next year, replacing Dr. Collins.
While we get ready to welcome new faces in the Schutz staff, we will also get ready to bid farewell to the faces that are going to leave us to commence on a new phase of their lives. “It’s time to move on”, Kelly stated after being part of Schutz’s family for about 15 years. Mr. Collins also expressed mixed feelings about leaving Schutz, “We have lived here for 3 years, which is a great amount of time, and it has been great teaching here. However, both of us are getting great opportunities next year: Dr. C will be a principal in a bigger school, and I will get the opportunity to teach IB History, something I look forward to. We have been having a good international experience, and we would like to continue it.”
People leaving and entering is part of our lives. On a more optimistic note, we get to meet new faces, and old faces commence on a new beginning. We wish all the leaving teachers a great success in the following year.
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