CLEVER, Mo. (KY3) – With the end of the school year fast approaching, KY3 talked with a first-year teacher about how that first year went.
This past August, Mackenzie Stoner was a recent graduate of Evangel University and was getting her classroom ready as a 4th-grade teacher in Clever and a high school volleyball coach.
“I want this to be a place they feel safe; they feel loved, they feel cared for. That they know they can come here, everything is going to be ok, the eight hours they are here, we’re gonna be ok,” says Stoner. “This is my whole wall, actually down here, I have a whole drawer of everything my kids have given me this year.”…