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Lionel Parker, Special Education Teacher

LIONEL PARKER, Special Education Department

Q:  What made you decide to teach?

A:  When I was getting out of a community college I was undecided until I went to a four-year college and I took an intro to a teaching class course. Then I knew I wanted to teach something.

Q:  What does your typical workday look like?

A:  From morning until afternoon its a full day. On Wednesdays, my favorite day, we have animal science.

Q:  Tell me about your background.

A: I’m from Virginia and I graduated from Norfolk State University, an HBCU. 

 Q:  What brought you to Wakefield?

A:  Last year I came from Virginia and applied to Wake County. This was the first school to interview me and I took the job.

Q:  What do you like most about Wakefield so far? 

A: By far the staff because everyone is so helpful. The students are also a blast to work with, we had ten students last year and three graduated so we have seven now.

 Q:  What do you like to do outside of school?

A: I like sports, football in particular. Sports and Youtube. 

Q:  Do you have any crazy teaching stories? 

A: Last year we were doing animal science and one of the chickens laid an egg right in my hand, that was pretty cool because I never had that happen before.

Q:  What is your advice for students taking your class(es)? 

A:  Honestly just try your best, I’d rather have your best effort forward than getting everything correct because eventually, it will be correct. 

 

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