More than 4,000 miles from the place of his birth, and four short years after becoming a high school teacher, Jonas Strecker, German teacher at South Forsyth High School sat surrounded by a sea of people gathered in recognition of what he has spent his whole life dedicated to; teaching.
South Forsyth German instructor named system’s Teacher of the Year
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