Obama Autograph


My classroom has no outside walls and is about 30 feet from an exit to the building.  It also has a hallway that goes directly to both the high school gym and another that goes to the Middle school gym.  Because of this I think the security people like it.  So far I have had one Senator, the US Secretary of the Interior, and a President of the United States use my room as a "green room" while visiting Dillingham.  The day before the Obama visit I was going to get some stuff out of my classroom only to be confronted by four Secret Service agents hooking up more cables than I have seen in my life in my classroom.

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