Meet Our New Foreign Exchange Students

Julia Reimann has been teaching for 12 years and has worked outof-district at three different schools. She will be teaching Spanish 2 at Liberty this year. Other than working at LHS, she will also be teaching at Holt High School. She looks forward to getting to know her students this year. She came to Liberty after moving to Kansas City to be closer to family. She believes the Liberty staff is supportive and willing to help new staff members.

David Sedlock- Assistant Band Director

This is David Sedlock’s first year teaching. He will be teaching band this year and he looks forward to concerts and performances. He graduated from Timberland in 2015 and is an alumnus of Wentzville School District. He also student taught at Liberty and Frontier in the fall of 2020. He currently works at Frontier and Crossroads in addition to Liberty. In his free time, he loves playing any kind of music and singing.

Carter Datz has been teaching for three years and has been teaching at Jackson High School in Southeast Missouri for the past two years. He came to Liberty for the opportunity to lead his own choral program. He will be teaching Choir and Guitar. He hopes to offer more music classes such as Songwriting and A.P. Music Theory in the future. He looks forward to building relationships with his students. Outside of school, he loves to travel internationally with his wife, cook, play board games, and write music.

Abbie Bollwerk has been teaching for two years and has spent the last year teaching at Holt. She worked as a Liberty staff member for four years and has officially returned. After working as a Liberty staff member, she took her first teaching opportunity at Holt. She will be teaching Special Education Functional Skills.

Carter Datz- Vocal Music

Hannah Petit- Math

Hannah Petit has been teaching for eight years and has taught in the Wentzville Middle School building in the past. She came to Liberty when she noticed an open position and decided to make the change from middle school teaching to high school. She will be teaching Algebra 1, Algebra Strategies, and Essentials of Math this year. She has noticed the students and staff here at Liberty are respectful and welcoming. Outside of school, she likes to read and spend time with her kids.

Meet Our Foreign Exchange Students

Four students from Europe settle in at Liberty

by Abbiegail Luker, Reporter

“In general, a lot of things are just different here.” One of the things that surprised her the most was the dynamic between student and teacher; she recalled it being much less strict at home, and that the teachers here have more power. Amanda Andersen, Denmark

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Metschnabl said that she likes that it’s different here. “In Germany, we have broad subjects like Math and English. It’s cool that here they have classes like Piano and Culinary Arts.”

Elisa Metschnabl, Germany

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Radzei claimed that most of all, she misses German bread. “The bread here is much lighter, it’s more like toast.”

Mia Radzei, Germany

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Erne states that one of the first things that surprised her was the look of the school buses. “I just rode the bus for the first time yesterday. I don’t know what I had thought they’d look like, but not how they actually look.”Helen Erne, Germany

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