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Carley Stanford is in her first full year as a teacher at the Ritzville Grade School, however, she isn't a new face to students and parents.

Before future teachers graduate college, they have to student-teach at a school. It's not common for a teacher to then get a job at that same school. However, that is exactly what Stanford did.

She started student teaching at RGS in September of 2018 and finished in January 2019. She was immediately hired to finish the school year and now has a permanent job at the school.

Stanford knew she wanted to teach ever since she taught swimming lessons during...