Kathy Arnold loved her second-grade teacher, “Mrs. Johnson,” at North Mahaska Elementary in southeast Iowa, which led her to want to be a teacher.
“I hate blood, so nurse was out. Secretary, I couldn’t type, so that was out,” Arnold said. “I knew I was going to be a teacher a long time ago. I taught my dolls — all that kind of stuff.”
After graduating from Independence High School and then Wartburg College in Waverly with a degree in Christian education, Arnold got a job at a school in inner-city Chicago…