Laura Araiza, the head principal assistant, is leaving at the end of the semester to become a teacher. She will begin student teaching in the spring.

Araiza is a North graduate and then has worked at North for 10 years, her husband graduated from North and two of her kids graduated from North. When she was a kid she dreamed of being a teacher but when she attended high school at North she took Youth Entrepreneurs and she wanted to take more business classes so instead she went to college to be an accountant instead. While in college she started working at a bank and she decided to take a break from college. She wanted a job that flexible and took a job at North.

“I loved being back at North and being around the students so I decided to go back to school to be a business teacher,” Araiza said.

Araiza decided she wanted to become a business teacher because she already had taken several of the course requirements and she going into her senior year in college which require Araiza to leave North to student teach at East high school. She wants students to have the same experience she had in high school and hopes to give that to her future students.

” I will definitely miss working at North.  The staff, the students, the families, and the culture of North are all great,” she said.

A lot of the teachers and stay speak very highly of her. FAC teacher Aileen Delforge said, “She is the heart of North.”