Southside ISD teacher Jason Garcia stands in line with his pickings from a shopping spree at a local H-E-B store.
Each educator selected by their district for the promotion had 90 seconds to fill shopping cart with supplies — all on the Alamo City-based company's dime. The goods were then distributed to their individual districts.Southside ISD Teacher of the Year Jason Garcia said he was going in with a game plan. G"This is an opportunity to get the fancy things," said Garcia, who teaches 8th grade science at Losoya Middle School, as he waited for store employees to count down his time to go.
In the checkout line line, waiting for the items to be rung up, Garcia discussed why he chose a job in education, even if it's not full of financial rewards. Garcia, who's been teaching for more than a decade, said the profession doesn't offer quick gratification. Sometimes, he admitted, he wondered whether he was actually making the difference that originally drew him to teach.
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