Seahawks Quarterback Now a Teacher
What a great story from the Times. Former Seahawks quarterback, Jon Kitna, is teaching high school math at Lincoln High in Tacoma. What makes this story even better is that was his plan all along.
From the story:
Quarterbacks from Central Washington University don't usually move on to the NFL. Not even the really good ones, and as great as Kitna was, he graduated with a degree in math education and had every expectation his next gig would be in a classroom and not under center. He applied for his first teaching job before he signed with an NFL team.
He doesn't know when he decided he was going to do this, because he can't remember a time when this wasn't part of his plan.
"I never knew I wasn't going to do it," Kitna said.
But he made the Seattle scout team and stayed. He ended up also playing for the Bengals, Lions and (boo) Cowboys.
Here's a teacher:
It's not hard to imagine a former NFL quarterback filling his afternoons with football. It's tougher to imagine that same man — a guy who was making $3 million last year — arriving on campus at 7 a.m. and bringing breakfast for kids who need extra help, hosting a home room and then teaching two periods of algebra.
From the story:
Quarterbacks from Central Washington University don't usually move on to the NFL. Not even the really good ones, and as great as Kitna was, he graduated with a degree in math education and had every expectation his next gig would be in a classroom and not under center. He applied for his first teaching job before he signed with an NFL team.
He doesn't know when he decided he was going to do this, because he can't remember a time when this wasn't part of his plan.
"I never knew I wasn't going to do it," Kitna said.
But he made the Seattle scout team and stayed. He ended up also playing for the Bengals, Lions and (boo) Cowboys.
Here's a teacher:
It's not hard to imagine a former NFL quarterback filling his afternoons with football. It's tougher to imagine that same man — a guy who was making $3 million last year — arriving on campus at 7 a.m. and bringing breakfast for kids who need extra help, hosting a home room and then teaching two periods of algebra.
Comments
I am reading a book on the history of women teachers in Seattle. It's fascinating, too. One premise of the book is that Seattle attracted great, long term teachers in the interwar years because of a great superintendent.
Please explain: "kudos to the district and the Tacoma Education Association for recognizing that teacher/coaches sometimes warrant a special way of hiring."