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Ron Drzewicki: In Mason, our people are
the heart and soul of our school district.

Our teamwork, our collaboration, make the
difference each and every day

in the lives of our students.

Our reach is wide, and our
impact is powerful.

Bonnie Cantu: We're the beginning.

This is the first experience that these
young children have with our school system.

We need to form that positive bond, with
both the parents and the students,

because this is their first exposure.

We want their step going to kindergarten
and then out to our elementary schools to

always be positive.

This is a team; a strong team.

We take a lot of pride in that.

A lot of pride in this school.

Abby Betcher: We help the children with
toileting and eating snack, and we do

various activities and sing songs.

Krystal Hodge: I know that children that
have extremely low income need the extra

love, they need the extra caring, and
I love that I'm able to help those children.

Melissa Halstead: I think just having a great
working relationship between us and the

teachers helps put off a wonderful
front of the schools;

teachers, secretaries work together,
everyone's working together so the kids

are the ones who are able to bloom and grow.

Jodie Deroshia: Mason is so great about
including all kids in the gen-ed setting.

All of my students go to gen-ed at some
point during the day.

It's just such a wonderful team that they
make sure that everyone is included,

and those kids, now they have so many
friendships; my students, I feel like we're

the most popular kids in the building. We
can't walk the hallways without being stopped

a million times by everybody greeting us.

Jerry Parsons: Mason Schools have always
maintained their buildings really well,

their teaching staff is out of this world.
They go above and beyond,

and the maintenance and the custodians
do the same thing:

We're always willing to go the extra mile
to keep the buildings looking nice and

clean and safe for students and staff.

Stephanie Keith: I love driving a school bus,
I love children.

I started driving a school bus because my
daughter was in kindergarten and she loved

her driver.

Field trip with her, she said, "Mom! Can
you drive the next field trip?" and I said,

"Sure, how hard can that be?"

I got that binder from our transportation
department, and got through testing and,

I've been driving now going on
almost eight years.

Jencina Riegert: Mason is exemplary because
most of the people that work for the food

service are from Mason, and so we have the
home town feeling. We grew up here.

We work here, and kids come through from
parents we graduated with, or grand kids

even sometimes, and we just all
enjoy our jobs.

Mary Kay Gavitt: The biggest part of the
job is the aquatics, so we offer a lot of

aquatics programs, and spend a lot of time
spreading the word of drowning, and what

we can do to prevent it.

We have many different classes around the
community and right here at our school.

Some of the classes we offer are Karate for
kids, babysitting classes, we have painting

classes, we offer driver's education classes,
we have a photography class.

Very proud of Mason Public Schools because
they really give me that power to go over

and try to get everybody involved and,

I'm very proud to be a Mason
Public School employee.

Pete Hudson: This is kind of an outdoor
classroom;

They're learning, and you know, you're
doing it for the kids because they're out

here because they want to be, not because
they have to be.

It's just nice to make things good for them.

We invite people to our school everyday;
sometimes there's a hundred sometimes

there's three hundred, a thousand, and so
you just want to make it-- it's got to

look good because you're inviting people in.
It's just got to look good.

Kyle Kruizenga: A the high school I take
care of the athletic wing and a couple of

the science rooms on the other
end of the building.

And I love people and I love the community
of Mason.

In one word: Family.

Everybody comes together when something
needs to be done.

Roger Brock: Well I've been here for
19 years, and when I first started it was

just a job, but it didn't take long after
that until I realized that this is some

place I'm going to stay for a while, then
I got to know everybody,

it's more like a family now.

A lot of the stuff we do, nobody knows
about. And that's the way it should be;

if we're doing our job, people don't even
know we're here, mostly.

Stephanie Keith: We go the extra mile all
the time, so that's what makes us amazing;

we're hard working people.

Jodi Deroshia: I believe that it takes a
village, and just, Mason is great about that.

Everybody works as a team to help all the
kids reach their success in development.

Abby Betcher: Some days are easier than
others, but each day is so rewarding to just

see the joy on the children's faces to come
to school, to learn, and to see the teachers

and their other friends in other classrooms.

It's just, I've fallen in love with it.

Melissa Halstead: The outpouring of love
and support that you get from this

community is absolutely overwhelming.

Bonnie Cantu: It is a strong community.
We care about our schools.

Stephanie Keith: It's amazing. I think it's
a wonderful, growing community and

it just is a place that feels like home.

Roger Brock: The way I look at it is, I try
to do my small part for the education of

the future leaders of this great country.

I say that a lot, and, you know,
and it's true.