Science teacher retires after 23 years at CCS

    Kim Wilson is retiring from   Chase County Schools (CCS) after teaching high school science for 23 years.
    She also coached junior high track for 13 of those years, and she is proud to have sponsored the 2019 graduating class since they were freshmen, she said.
    Wilson completed her undergraduate studies at Chadron State College and received her Master’s at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
    In total, her teaching career spanned 27 years.
    She taught high school science for one year in Marquette, Nebraska and three years in Bern, Kansas before coming to Imperial.
Changes over the years
    Schools and teaching are not the same as when she first started, said Wilson.
    Today, teachers are asked to do a lot more, either mandated or simply because they feel the need to do more for students to fill the gap as needed, she explained.
    She said technology has also changed tremendously. Cell phones, computers or even copy machines didn’t exist when she started teaching.
    “In my early years as a teacher, we used a mimeograph to make all our copies. You could always tell when teachers had been mimeographing because they had purple fingers,” she laughed.
    Changes weren’t just in the area of technology.
    “It used to be that we got a lot of support from parents when dealing with a student’s behavioral problem or missing school. When a student was told their parents would be contacted about an issue, they were genuinely worried,” Wilson said.
    She stated that parents would usually believe the teacher and were in agreement that a student needed to be held accountable for their actions.

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