An Interview With Mr. Spuches
By Jessica Defrancis
In the winter of 1998, a younger Mr. Jeffrey Spuches was acting as a college substitute and absolutely fell in love with the job. Before that happened he had to go to college, so he went to Plattsburg State. Mr. Spuches has worked in the Island Trees School district for 12 years, since 2004. His inspiration was the fact that he loved working with kids. His favorite part of teaching is working with wonderful students each year and getting to hear compelling stories about their own experiences and feelings. He said if he could meet up with any person in history he would hang out with Sam Adams, a revolutionary wildman! Lastly, some advice this brainy history teacher would like to give to all his students is, “It doesn't matter how smart you are, it matters how hard you tried!”
