Thirty two years as a Teachers Aide, Lynette Copp has spent her career at CMR, floating around the school doing all the small unnoticed things that keep the school moving, making herself an unknown but key part within the school’s walls.
“I wanted to have the same hours as my kids,” she said.
Copp was motivated by the hours, picking up this job right after she had a baby. She wanted a schedule where she could still put her children first and be a mother, as well as keeping a full-time job.
“I love the gals I work with,” she said.
She said she has grown to love her unique job as an office aide, though she says it can be kind of hectic with the constant work and being on the go. The unique tasks she’s given on a daily basis, and short noticed errands weren’t always that way.
Copp said there used to be more than one teacher’s aide in her position, when they needed more ground covered, but now the way jobs are, they don’t need more than just her.
“The position, when I first started here, they had four of us that just came in to work stair duty,” she said. “And there used to be three lunches and we’d all sit on the stairs to keep the kids from going upstairs.”
Copp has spent over three decades with CMR, becoming a strong factor of the main office and school’s function, running around the building and helping out people around the whole building.
Copp will retire after this school year.
“It’s kind of bittersweet you know, coming to an end,”
Her hard work and dedication to the school has made an impact on CMR, without Copp’s small tasks like extra filing or her work in the Attendance Office, and her driving the 8th graders in Honors Algebra back to NMS, the building wouldn’t run the same.
Her work and impact on her coworkers and students will be missed, as she has been a Rustler for 32 years.
“When I worked at the bank it was stressful, and I never wanted a secretarial position, so that’s why I stayed as a teacher’s aide, and I’ve loved it.”
