Teacher Profile Series: Lind-Ritzville Schools' Jennifer York

When graduation comes this June, teachers everywhere will be saying goodbye to a class of students. For many teachers, this means saying goodbye to children they have worked with over the course of the year. But for Lind-Ritzville Schools' band teacher Jennifer York, this means saying goodbye to a senior class full of students she has taught for 13 years.

York teaches band to students in grades 5-12 in both Lind and Ritzville. Before the merger of the schools, she taught students in K-12. This year's senior class was the final kindergarten class that York taught before the change.

"It's like r...