East Grand Rapids — If you’d asked Maddie Nagher and Ellie Hilgendorf about their career aspirations a year ago, elementary education wouldn’t have come up.
The two East Grand Rapids High School seniors were both planning to be business majors, figuring it was a safe and practical bet. But Betsy Kratt’s Cadet Teaching class has allowed them to not only discover their love for teaching, but get some hands-on experience in the field as well.
“When I first started, I definitely didn’t want to be a teacher,” Maddie said. “And then I took Cadet and I was like, ‘I have to be a kindergarten teacher.’”…