001My name is Clarence Mehlenbeck, or some call me CW and I work at CK Middle School. I first got hired as a sub for the maintenance department, you know, working different jobs here and there doing grass cutting and all that other good stuff. I think in 2003, I applied for a job as a sub custodian, and that kind of led into job openings and I got hired on. Well, I started in second grade over at Woodlands Elementary, and then I moved to Silverdale Elementary in fifth grade, and then I followed that by going to CK Junior High when it was the junior high And CK High School and graduated in 2000. As a student, one of my probably one of my best memories was going into the high school gym and just seeing the atmosphere,
002because it's a lot different from junior high to high school, or when you go into like pep assemblies and stuff like that. I noticed when students first would come up to me and like ask me for things they wouldn't be using, you know, words like please, which is kind of like a fundamental, okay, you ask for something, How do you ask for it the right way? So when they say, please, I just kind of, you know, reward them with a little. Okay, well, here's a little pick me up. You know, sometimes some of the students are having a hard day or something like that, and they just need that little interaction of, a little pick me up and just give them an orange mint and it makes their day and gets a little smile on
003their face. And it's good to see them smile. I mean, you want them to have more than just teachers and everybody else to talk to. There's other people in the district that make it work.