Joan Dopps gives a thumbs-up on the last day of school ever - for her - after a 43-year teaching career.
June 15, 2023
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June 19, 2023 1:30 a.m.
School is OUT for MLSD retiree
‘I truly love the seven (and) eight-year-olds. I’ve always just related.’
MOSES LAKE — Joan Dopps said her career as a second grade teacher started with a visit to her former second grade teacher. “I went through many different bouts of ‘what am I going to do.’ I worked a year in a bank; I got an AA degree from Big Bend,” she said. “I went to visit (her former teacher) in California. And then I came back home and quit the bank, commuted to Ellensburg and became a teacher.” ...