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Four resign jobs at school district
by Gregory R. Norfleet · News · April 27, 2017
Wrestling coach Chris Paulus and teachers Alyssa Jacobson, Chris Copeland and Aaron Mueller submitted resignations to West Branch Community School District, and the Board of Education on April 10 accepted them all.
Paulus will remain a second-grade teacher at Hoover Elementary, but resigned as head coach of the high school wrestling team to begin in the fall a masters program in special education.
“I am doing this to better myself as an educator and open up more opportunities for myself in the future,” he wrote to the board. “I thoroughly enjoyed my time coaching. I was fortunate to work with amazing student-athletes at West Branch and hopefully helped them to grow as respectful, hardworking men along the way.”
Jacobson resigned her position as life science teacher, effective at the end of the school year, to take a job at Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids, where she once attended as a student.
“I will cherish my years and experience here and will never forget the friends I have made,” she wrote.
Copeland resigned as 5th-8th grade instrumental music teacher to accept this fall a graduate assistantship position at the University of Northern Iowa to begin a masters degree.
“It is with a heavy heart that I resign ... It has truly been an honor to teach at West Branch with great community support, great teachers and staff, and the incredibly talented and amazing students,” he wrote in his letter.
Mueller resigned, effective at the end of the school year, from teaching math classes for the past nine years.
“Thank you for your time and commitment to serving the school community,” he wrote. “It has been my pleasure to teach here.”
Board member Jodi Yeggy made a “reluctant” motion to accept these resignations.
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