Mike Huss, the new principal of Ione Elementary School in California, USA, said he attended the school as a child and originally started working there as a gateman.
According to him, he wanted to show his young son, that if his dad could be the school janitor while coaching youth sports, and become a school teacher, he could accomplish anything.
Once he completed his degree, Huss immediately got hired to teach at the school.
In his words;
I’d fallen in love, I wanted to get a job and help my wife go through college,” Huss said of the job, which he held for over a decade.
“So I just said ‘oh, they’ve got a school’s janitor job, I’ll take it,’ and it worked out. I did not know I was going to stay there for all these years,” he added.
“I was literally the school janitor on a Monday. I worked a double shift. I worked from 6am till 10pm that night, getting the school ready,” he said about the transition from janitor to teacher.
“The very next day, Tuesday, I was in my first teachers’ meeting. Thursday of that same week, I had my first class,” he added. I can do this job In 2022, after almost two decades of teaching, much to his surprise, he was offered the opportunity to lead this school.
“I really think that I can do this job … because I have the support of everyone. I have to try my best every day for them,’ said the new principal.
Ione Elementary’s office administrator Melanie Cortez told KCRA-3 that “it’s neat when people can stay in their community and there’s opportunities like this.”
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