My Education History Interview

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For my Education History Interview I decided to interview Mrs. Sandra Clark; a former Home Economics teacher at Georgia Southern University, and a family friend. Mrs. Clark is seventy years old and retired when she was fifty-nine after changing professions and working in education for over thirty years. After she retired she became a social-worker for mental health patients. In her years of schooling, she attended Terrell County Elementary, Middle and High School and then upon graduating attended Georgia Southern University. Mrs. Sandra says, she can remember her elementary school as being “a small building with brick walls and wooden floors, with windows that had no screen.” She also said that her middle school had an upstairs classroom,

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