Teacher Profile Series: LRHS teacher Andy Williams

After briefly considering an alternate career path, LRHS ag teacher of 15 years feels right at home

Jeremy Burnham, Reporter | Last updated Dec 04, 2019 12:11pm0

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Lind-Ritzville High School teacher Andy Williams (left) with one of his classes. Williams has been an ag teacher for 15 years, and is also an advisor for the Lind-Ritzville FFA.

In The Journal's Teacher Profile Series, we have met teachers who always wanted to teach. We also met teachers who needed to figure it out in college. Today, we meet Lind-Ritzville High School ag teacher Andy Williams, a teacher who wanted to be a teacher early on, only to change his mind in college. It wasn't until after college that he realized his first calling was his true calling.

"I wanted to be a teacher early on," Williams said. "But I didn't love taking all the education classes. So I changed my mind."

It wasn't long after school that he changed his mind again.

"I had a job at a bank...