Changing Direction
Graduate campus puts students on a different path
By Christine Neuberger
For Walter Watson, pew-squirming led to career-shifting.
When his pastor talked one Sunday about the importance of being stakeholders in our children’s education, Watson knew the man in the pulpit was preaching to him. Within a few months, the 58-year-old former U.S. Postal Service supervisor began working as a substitute teacher. Later that year, he checked into what it would take to get a teaching certificate.
Today, Watson has a master of education degree from the University of Mary Washington and is teaching students with special needs.