Education Edition - 1736 Magazine, Fall 2019
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FACES OF DOWNTOWN<br />
Thelma Nicole Mack<br />
LEARNING THE ROPES<br />
By DAMON CLINE<br />
There are three types of teachers,<br />
Thelma Nicole Mack says.<br />
Those who choose the career as a<br />
child; those who are inspired by an educator<br />
parent or relative; and those who find their<br />
way into the profession through a circuitous route.<br />
Mack, an engineering and technology teacher<br />
at A.R. Johnson Health Science and Engineering<br />
Magnet High School, falls into the latter category.<br />
“I would say that this is my calling, but I had to<br />
find it,” Mack said. “I didn’t wake up saying, ‘I want<br />
to be a teacher,’ but I did find it along the way.”<br />
And now the 34-year-old’s serpentine journey<br />
into teaching has her helping shape young minds<br />
at her alma mater, the Richmond County School<br />
System’s premier STEM-based magnet school.<br />
The school isn’t the building the 2003 graduate<br />
remembers – the school was rebuilt in 2008 – but<br />
its mission and standards haven’t changed with<br />
the passage of time.<br />
MACK continues on 66<br />
Thelma Nicole Mack<br />
stands in front of A.R.<br />
Johnson Health Science<br />
and Engineering Magnet<br />
High School, which she<br />
graduated from in 2003<br />
and now serves on the<br />
faculty. [SPECIAL]<br />
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