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Monday, July 11, 2016
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Teachers experience workforce the first day because that was not an uplifting experience."
Josh Rollins
Jackie Dawsey
For the past two years, Howe's Economic Development office has sponsored two Howe teachers to participate in the Workforce Solution's Business Education for Teachers (BET) program. The program places the teachers in a workforce environment for one week to give them an idea of what the current workforce and workplace is like in the immediate community. The teachers are paid a $1,000 stipend for the week of summer vacation that they miss. The reason for the BET is to the experience to translate to real-life knowledge for students in that particular teacher's classroom. Last week, we recapped the week spent at Heritage Surgical Center by Howe High School Science Teacher Josh Rollins. This week we will turn to Jackie Dawsey, Howe Middle School English teacher to share her experiences at the Precinct 2 Grayson County Commissioner's office. After the first day of orientation, Dawsey was sent over to meet the Honorable Phyllis James, Commissioner of Precinct 3. With James being unavailable, they sent Dawsey to the county jail.
Dawsey said that she was being trained by one of her former students from Sherman ISD. "I tought her and now she's teaching me. It was really neat." said Dawsey. She had an awakening moment when she saw the laundry room and realized that this was an entire community within itself. She also learned that the county has to store fingerprints for 75 years and everything is being transferred to digital record keeping. While in the digital age, she did learn that the entire top floor of the courthouse is filled with old jail cells filled with paper records. She was even shown the actual will of Wilson N. Jones and the birth certificate of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Day two, she went to the courthouse with Commissioner James and was introduced to the rest of the county commissioners and actually attended a commissioners' court meeting. Upon conclusion, her and Commissioner James went across the street to witness a trial where a young man was being given punishment for a crime. "Even if they've been bad in your class, you never wish them to go down the wrong road. You always want them to find their way." said Dawsey. "The judge was really fair and afterwards he talked to us, and expressed his hope for the boy to get his act cleaned up."
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"I've never been in there." said Dawsey. "My husband is a policeman, but that's his job. I've After leaving the court room, she never been there. I'm glad that was was shown the tax assessor's office continued on page 6
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