Andy Boots is the Home School Coordinator for Marshall School. His employer is the LYSD and his boss is Roger Adams. The kind of training necessary for his job is a workshop every Fall in Bethel and Mountain Village. Andy has a high school diploma.

Andy works 5 hours a day and expects to work depending on what happens in the future. He works in the office and also with the parents of the students having attendance problems. Four of his job responsibilities are doing attendance every morning to check on who's missing, talking to parents when their kids have an attendance problem, letting his boss know when there are attendance problems, and uploading attendance information to Mountain Village by modem.

The best thing about his job, he says, is going out and having a cup of coffee with parents and explaining to them that together as a group we can fix the attendance problems at MHS. The worst thing about his job is when the students don't come to school and play hooky and he has to speak to them about it.

Andy's advice to young people who might want his job later is "be on time for work and show that you can do the job."

Yvonne R. Evan