Meirose making the most of AHS
By Zack Simonson
Published Feb. 22, 2017
Mrs. Kimberly Meirose took over the art classes for Mrs. Julia Real after Real’s retirement in 2016. Mrs. Meirose has an extensive background working with many different schools and even helping to build the curriculum for engineering. Meirose has taught for 22 years, and during this time she has taught classes such as the third grade, math, science, art, and gifted and talented to name a few, while also teaching ALC and online courses. She has taught everyone from 8-21 year olds from cities, small towns, and reservations. Being around public, private, and charter schools, she has experienced multiple parts of the education system that few have. Meirose has traveled all around Minnesota and parts of the U.S. to help different schools. She has even been offered a teaching job in Malaysia.
Meirose is glad to be working in Aitkin and enjoys the improvements our school is making to better the education of our students. She is happy to see all the changes recently made for students to get better technology and the classes offered here. She is gracious of both the admin and her co-workers.
“The kids are just nice and for the most part want to learn and are respectful, and I see the same with the administration and the teachers — just a good community,” Meirose said. “To me Aitkin represents what’s best about America: Just really dedicated people to our country, our community, and our schools.”
Qualities she finds to be the best in students are the hard work they show. She values journalistic integrity and a realistic viewpoint. She said the worst experiences she has had to deal with as a teacher has been violence in the school. “Violent, illegal things at a very young age is not fun to deal with,” Meirose said.
Meirose also appreciates the safety of our community and the trust and kindness people here have towards one another. If Meirose could add a classes to the school she would add programs like Project Lead the Way, and other engineering type classes, while also adding a robotics club.
When asked if there is anything she would say to the students Meirose stated, “One thing I notice about this school is that I think people forget what they have, and the good things that they have. It’s easier to think on the negatives, so I think just remembering and reminding students how great our community and school is.”
Published Feb. 22, 2017
Mrs. Kimberly Meirose took over the art classes for Mrs. Julia Real after Real’s retirement in 2016. Mrs. Meirose has an extensive background working with many different schools and even helping to build the curriculum for engineering. Meirose has taught for 22 years, and during this time she has taught classes such as the third grade, math, science, art, and gifted and talented to name a few, while also teaching ALC and online courses. She has taught everyone from 8-21 year olds from cities, small towns, and reservations. Being around public, private, and charter schools, she has experienced multiple parts of the education system that few have. Meirose has traveled all around Minnesota and parts of the U.S. to help different schools. She has even been offered a teaching job in Malaysia.
Meirose is glad to be working in Aitkin and enjoys the improvements our school is making to better the education of our students. She is happy to see all the changes recently made for students to get better technology and the classes offered here. She is gracious of both the admin and her co-workers.
“The kids are just nice and for the most part want to learn and are respectful, and I see the same with the administration and the teachers — just a good community,” Meirose said. “To me Aitkin represents what’s best about America: Just really dedicated people to our country, our community, and our schools.”
Qualities she finds to be the best in students are the hard work they show. She values journalistic integrity and a realistic viewpoint. She said the worst experiences she has had to deal with as a teacher has been violence in the school. “Violent, illegal things at a very young age is not fun to deal with,” Meirose said.
Meirose also appreciates the safety of our community and the trust and kindness people here have towards one another. If Meirose could add a classes to the school she would add programs like Project Lead the Way, and other engineering type classes, while also adding a robotics club.
When asked if there is anything she would say to the students Meirose stated, “One thing I notice about this school is that I think people forget what they have, and the good things that they have. It’s easier to think on the negatives, so I think just remembering and reminding students how great our community and school is.”