Teachers say goodbye to campus

Benjamin Prengler

Psychology teacher Elyse Hall is one of many teachers who will say say goodbye to the campus at the end of this school year.

Lauren Payne, Staff Reporter
May 13, 2015

Updated, May 25, 3:00 p.m.

With the end of every year comes teachers leaving the district for other opportunities, for personal reasons or for new career advancements.

There is a number of teachers who are not coming back next year and currently there have been no replacements hired.

“From our standpoint, the sooner that we start the interview process, the more likely we are to have a quality pool of applicants,” Principal Chris Mayfield said. “Anytime we get a resignation we try and get those posted immediately and really we start that process of looking for a teacher immediately. As we have had some resignations, we have already started looking. We are trying to move those processes along as fast as we can. We expect this at the end of every year, and it’s usually a routine occurrence.”

Below is a list of current teachers who are leaving this school year and where they are going.

Mallín Hernandez, AP Spanish teacher

Kevin Finn, AP World History (Plano East Senior High School)

Russell Reichenbach, head baseball coach and United States History Teacher

Romi Farrell, golf coach

Greg Fisher, head swim coach and world geography teacher

Elyse Hall, AP Psychology and US history teacher

Brian Higgins, broadcast and newspaper adviser (Frisco Liberty High School)

Jeff Jahnke, Band Director

Phillip Murray, assistant football coach and world history teacher (Dallas Thomas Jefferson High School)

Shawn Purcell, assistant football coach and biology teacher (Wylie East High School)

Bethany Stuard, choir director