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Beloved Byrnes High School teacher reflects on decades in classroom
By Jay King
HOMETOWN NEWS
For Jo Lynn Allen, 46 years of shaping young minds in the classroom have brought changes to the building and the world outside the school but have shown teens are fundamentally the same in 2011 as they were in 1965 when she first started.
Allen was the very first James F. Byrnes High graduate to be hired to teach at Byrnes, and she has spent her entire career in the school and community where she was born and raised.
In fact, Allen has been such a feature of the education of so many students over the years that her classroom longevity is commemorated on a tee shirt, to the effect that “You know you’re a Rebel if your parents were taught by Ms. Allen.”
As she winds down her last school year before retiring this summer, she spoke about what it has been like to teach high school students about literature and how to use the English language effectively.
For the rest of the story, read this week’s Middle Tyger Times.
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