How do you place a value on what teachers do for our children?
If you think about it, there is probably not a more important word any of us can utter than the word "teacher." Each of us carries a little part of every teacher we ever had with us throughout our life. Sure, first responders, military members and healthcare workers are critically important to society. However, let's not forget those who prepared and enabled them to become these heroes of humanity. I think back to when a young 22-year-old, first-time teacher named Phyllis Hasty taught my 6th grade classmates and me at Florosa Elementary School, located in southwest Okaloosa County. Ms. Hasty ...