New teacher finds his passion

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August 28, 2019 - 10:28 AM

Lake Johnson is the new sixth grade science teacher at Iola Middle School. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS

Lake Johnson could have been an engineer, until he decided that he really didn’t like college chemistry.

“It was really hard. I thought, ‘I don’t like this anymore,” he said.

So he changed his major to business. But that was boring.

Then he changed his major to elementary education.

That, he discovered, was fun.

But what’s interesting, is that Johson is now teaching chemistry. And physics. Even some engineering concepts.

But at a sixth grade level.

“I’ll stick with sixth grade engineering,” he laughed.

The affable Johnson laughs a lot while telling the story of how he became a teacher. That was far from his plan when he graduated from Spring Hill High School and started school at Baker University.

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