Growing up in Battle Creek, Iowa, Larry Walls envisioned that he’d be an educator someday.
“So much of my joy growing up was school. I just loved the environment, my friends, the teachers, coaches, all the activities, that kind of stuff,” he said. “I remember writing a report about the career I wanted to be in, a teacher and a coach. So probably from about the age of 9…I really was kind of destined to be a teacher.”
What he didn’t envision was his high school sweetheart and future wife also being a teacher, raising a son and daughter who eventually became teachers, too, or that all four teachers in the Walls family would be employed by Bellevue Public Schools…