GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A true pick-me-up for all of West Michigan: There’s a Grand Rapids math teacher competing against hundreds of other teachers across the country for the title of America’s Favorite Teacher.
The race is already down to the quarterfinals, but this is still some pretty stiff competition.
“Quarterfinals – I was thinking March Madness, bracket style, there’s like four or five of us left, and then I went to the page, and I saw that there’s still about, I counted a hundred – the math side of me, I had to count. There was 128 quarterfinal groups with 10 people in each. So, there’s roughly over 1,200 people still in the contest,” said Aaron Fillenworth, who teaches pre-algebra to seventh and eighth graders at City High Middle School with Grand Rapids Public Schools…