By Dahlia Taylor
The Jag
Staffane Wells is the newest addition to the Blue Springs South Family She teaches Freshman English and yearbook.
Before she joined south, she taught seventh grade at Raytown South Middle School, eighth grade at East Gate Middle School in north Kansas City, which eventually turned into a sixth-grade center and that is where she taught for 5 more years. She has three children, two attend south which is one of her reasons for working here
“I’ve been wanting to get here for years, I’m happy I finally got here I’ve just always wanted to work at this school that my kids go to its kind of a perk that not many jobs get,” she said.
Things she likes to do is binge watch shows with her husband. some of her current shows are ‘Once Upon a Time,’ ‘Only Murders in the Building’ (which has the singer Selena Gomez). When she is not watching those, she is cooking.
“Cooking is very cathartic and therapeutic. To chop and prep food cause you can’t be distracted, or you will hurt yourself. I really love watching my family eat the food and being like ‘is it good?’ and ‘I made that, so that’s cool’,” She said.
Wells got her Bachelor’s at UMKC and her Master’s at WGU and her specialist from Northwest, she did not want to be a teacher because her parents were teachers because she saw all the stressful it was
“But ya know life happens,” She said.
What she loves the most Is that even though she is a teacher, she also gets to learn from students.
“High schoolers are more focused, but there’s something about the explosiveness of middle schoolers that kinda forces you to think outside of the box and find a new way to do things” she said.
