{"id":797,"date":"2023-11-07T07:20:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T15:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-middle-school\/2023\/11\/07\/teresa-kats-driving-the-communitys-students\/"},"modified":"2023-11-07T07:20:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T15:20:48","slug":"teresa-kats-driving-the-communitys-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-middle-school\/2023\/11\/07\/teresa-kats-driving-the-communitys-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Teresa Kats: Driving the Community\u2019s Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>This post is part of the Lynden Schools Staff Spotlight series<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every morning before Teresa Kats pulls her Lynden Schools bus out of the garage at Fisher Elementary School she says a prayer. Kats knows the importance of her job, the responsibility of serving as a bus driver for Lynden Schools.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Role<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now in her 32<sup>nd<\/sup>&nbsp;year, Kats drives students daily, \u201ctransporting the world\u2019s most precious cargo to and from school,\u201d she says.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are often told we have the hardest job in the district,\u201d Kats says. The drivers must constantly remain on alert for other traffic, load and unload students safely and ensure everyone remains seated and rides safely. All these tasks are on top of the already consuming requirements needed while driving an oversized vehicle.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Getting to Know Teresa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Kats isn\u2019t in the driver\u2019s seat of a Lynden Schools bus, she\u2019s often on a saddle. She works with her husband and adult kids to raise black angus beef cattle and hay, but also enjoys riding and showing her AQHA gelding, Joe, in ranch riding and reigning events.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a farm kid from Ferndale,\u201d she says. \u201cI grew up on a potato farm, Ebe Farms, which my brother has now. I love that Lynden is still, for the most part, an agricultural community. I\u2019m pretty passionate about ag.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She\u2019s passionate about ag, but more importantly, she\u2019s meticulously passionate about student safety.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is part of the Lynden Schools Staff Spotlight series Every morning before Teresa Kats pulls her Lynden Schools bus out of the garage at Fisher Elementary School she&nbsp;&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-middle-school\/2023\/11\/07\/teresa-kats-driving-the-communitys-students\/\">Read&nbsp;More&nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Lynden Middle School","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-middle-school","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-middle-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-middle-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-middle-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-middle-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-middle-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-middle-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-middle-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-middle-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-middle-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-middle-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}