Written By: Hannah Nasluchacz and Rylee Sturgis, Staff Writers
ADVICE: Poly High School teachers, with years of experience, give graduating seniors advice.
It’s the time of the school year when Poly seniors are getting ready to graduate and leave high school to start their lives as part of the world. In doing so, many of them look for the help of trusted adults to guide them through the processes of functioning without the structure that high school gives them. Today, teachers tend to be the trusted adult that high school students rely on. In an effort to help guide students one last time before they graduate, several teachers have shared some advice in hopes that it will aid them in their futures.
Math teacher, Sara Savage, has been teaching for seventeen years and has taught Math one and Math three at Poly for a year. She mentions that, “you have to work hard to get where you want to go.” She then explains that working hard means to have a good work ethic and to do the work yourself, not “let people do it for you.”
Sara Savage
AP US History, US History, and Psychology/Sociology teacher, Adrianne Dubuisson, has also been teaching at Poly for seventeen years. She advises all students to “find a career you love whether it be going to a trade school or getting a degree at a four year university.”
Adrianne Dubuisson
Head of the photography club, Honors and AP Chemistry teacher, Matthew Schiller, has been at Poly for 19 years. In regards to future decisions that seniors will face he advises to “find something you’re passionate about to do for a career.”
Matthew Schiller
Kimberly Yeyna, has been an English, AP Language and Composition, and American Literature teacher for 20 years here at Poly High School. She gave the reminder “to breathe, you will end up exactly where you’re supposed to be and whatever paths you take will bring you to exactly where you belong.”
Kimberly Yeyna
Kristen Walton, the choir director of Concert Choir, Bella Voce, Chamber Singers, and Show Choir for the past 10 years, encourages her students to “take risks and don’t be afraid to fail.” She explains that “the most successful people in life have all been failures at some point. The reason they are successful is because they learn from their failures.” She closes her advice by encouraging students to “be good humans.”
Kristen Walton
Teachers are the backbone of society. They not only teach students the curriculum, they also serve as role models and mentors for their students. They guide young people in finding themselves in the world. Our teachers here at Poly High School look to aid passionate young adults who work to make the right decisions for themselves, and others as they step out in the world, as much as they possibly can.