A cape flutters to the ground

The district offices for Granite School District are amazing. Large, clean, beautiful and well staffed. Wednesday, as I previously mentioned, I was at my school. It is a spotless school, the custodial staff is amazing, and everyone wants to meet there as a district. Thursday and Friday I was the Granite District offices which were also spotless and impeccably maintained, apparently it is a trend I am hoping is wide spread. Monday, today, I found myself at the district offices again for a different round of meetings. A number of times throughout the last couple of days as people found out where I would be teaching they only had nice things to say about the school.

I went to work in my classroom last week, before official contract days and before I actually had my keys. The custodial staff was so helpful, welcoming and professional, they let me into my room and were very helpful. I was instantly impressed with how my room, that was vacated by a retiring teacher, was more than ready for the new year already.

When I had to go find someone, all of the office staff couldn't stop raving about our support staff. During registration, which I got to help with, the custodial staff were there making sure the school was shiny and ready for another year. I have the opportunity to go into plenty of schools, and honestly I've been noticing the difference.

Today's meetings were a district wide meeting of CTE teachers, my department. It was announced that the lead custodian at my school died on Friday. He was not old. I would guess he was in his 40's but I really don't know. There was a fun motorcycle called a "spider bike" that has two wheels in front side by side and one in back. He lost control, went over an embankment and died of massive head trauma.

He was an integral part of the community at my future school and it was referred to as "the tragedy at Matheson". Teachers know the value of such a wonderful staff and team member. Though I had not yet had the opportunity to know him yet, I can only imagine how sad my future team mates are right now.

I hope everyone realizes the value of the unsung behind the scenes people who make everything else possible.

Take a moment, pause to think, I'm sure there are those we don't think about too often. Today an unsung is being missed.

Here is the link to the story

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700056706/Employee-killed-in-motorcycle-accident-at-Magna-school.html?s_cid=rss-30