35 Years After Challenger Disaster, Former Students of Christa McAuliffe Honor Her Legacy
They have paid tribute to McAuliffe since that tragic day by becoming teachers themselves. Hickey is now a middle school physical education teacher, Jacques teaches fifth grade and Merrow is a second-grade teacher. "She made education real," Merrow told Hoda Kotb on TODAY Thursday. "She brought a real event into the classroom, and I really work hard to bring the real world into my classroom for my students." Thirty-five years ago on Jan. 28, the three high school seniors wore party hats and blew noisemakers as they cheered on McAuliffe. She had been selected out of 11,000 applicants to become...