When I was 15 years old, Mr Walz was my favourite teacher. Watching him speak before an audience of millions this week, I can see he has not changed one bit.
Last week, I found myself engrossed in hours of viral videos featuring Tim Walz. Like countless others, I was captivated by his message and plain-spoken communication style. But unlike the millions hearing him speak for the first time, I had experienced this before –two decades ago in Mankato West High School in MinnesotaBack then, he was my teacher. But the man US Vice President Kamala Harris named as her running mate on Tuesday has not changed one bit.
Mr Walz, as we knew him, was everyone’s favourite teacher.He was a “cool teacher,” but not young or trendy enough to be the coolest teacher. He was professional, but also a human. In 2006, he ran a grassroots campaign to become our district’s congressman with volunteers that included many former students and some of my friends and beat a Republican incumbent millionaire. After he was elected, I was shocked. Here he was, on a teacher’s salary of probably $US40,000, beating one of the handful of millionaires in our area. Surely, this would be the peak of his political career.
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