Profession in education a natural for Adam Lambert

    When he was growing up, Adam Lambert said he would never be a teacher.
    That’s because having parent educators, he was always at school where his dad was a math teacher and coach (before moving into administration), and his mother taught music.
    “I lived at the school. It was more my home than my real home,” he said this week.
    Even though he started college as a business finance major, Chase County’s newly hired school superintendent switched to K-12 music education, and has been in education ever since.
    “I just couldn’t give it up,” he said.
    Lambert will begin his position at Chase County Schools July 1, after moving here from Cody, where he’s completing his fourth year as superintendent at Cody-Kilgore Unified Schools.
    Chase County isn’t unfamiliar territory to Lambert, who’s father, Larry, is serving as the school’s interim superintendent the rest of the 2019-20 year.
    As a vocal music teacher for 11 years, which involved directing show choirs, he’s been to Chase County Schools twice as a show choir festival judge. He said he knows retired music teacher Randy Hayes well.
    His dad spoke highly of the school and community, too, he said.
    That led him to interview here. He was one of five finalists for the position who interviewed earlier this month.
    Lambert said he has no concerns with moving from a small D2 school as superintendent, with a 165-170 enrollment, to Chase County, a C1 school with more than 600 students.
  

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