By Madison Blais
Staff Writer
Kerry Webster has taken over for Megan Oelerich, an english teacher who is currently on maternity leave. It is Ms. Webster’s first year working at WA.
Q: How long have you been teaching?
A: I’ve been teaching in different ways for about three years. I started substituting, then I worked at the college level, then at the middle school level, and now I’m here at the high school.
Q: Where else have you worked beside Westford?
A: I was substituting in Wellesley and in Lexington, and then I worked in Waltham.
Q: What grades do you teach right now?
A: Right now I teach ninth and tenth grade.
Q: What made you want to be a teacher?
A: I love helping students, and I love helping people grow and learn what they need to be a well-rounded person.
Q: Did you always want to be a teacher?
A: I always knew I wanted to work with students, but I wasn’t 100% sure I wanted to be a teacher until I realized that I missed working with students who were younger than college age.
Q: Did you always want to be an English teacher or were you thinking of teaching another subject?
A: Yeah, I always loved English. English was always the subject that came most easily to me in school, even when I was in middle school and elementary school, it was always the easiest subject and I always really connected with it, so that was definitely the subject that I knew I wanted to teach.
Q: What do you do outside of school?
A: I love to travel, I love to go to the beach, which sadly will be coming to an end soon since its almost fall, and I love spending time with my friends and family.
Q: How does WA compare to past schools you have worked at?
A: I like it a lot, I would say it’s different teaching high school, the students are much more mature and independent than middle school, much more similar to when I taught in college.
Q: Do you like WA better than the other schools you’ve taught at?
A: Yes, I love working at WA…the students and the teachers have been very welcoming.
