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a profile story of Hector Perez

oach Pérez wanted his players to loosen up. As the varsity girls prepared for warm ups on the MVHS softball field, Pérez was getting his own body ready to hit softballs for a catching drill. I went to the softball field to catch the start of practice, with Pérez’s players throwing softballs to warm up or loosen their arms. He made adjustments for his softball players so their shoulders wouldn’t get hurt. He gave shoutouts about what they were doing

well. When the players were cleaning up the softball field, he was patient with them and showed them what to do to make sure they were safe. He put up the net and joked,

“You see? Softball requires doing heavy duty work” (Pérez).

Mr. Pérez is not only an understanding coach but a compassionate teacher as well. His students at Mountain View High School know him as an energetic, kind, helpful, and funny English

By: Karen Ann Quero

teacher, especially. One of his favorite teaching books is The Laughing Classroom, in which Diana Loomans and Karen Kohlberg discuss

“the Native American tradition,” where “there were people who were designated (or self-appointed) as the ‘official fools.’ Sometimes they were known as ‘contraries - those who did things backward’”(218). While some people might see Mr. Pérez’s humorous teaching style as backward, he is in


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