Ms. Dana Car’Mon is the new health teacher here at Eleanor Roosevelt High School. She said that she decided that she wanted to become a teacher her graduate year of college, and is a native of Alabama, having attended both the University of Mobile and the University of South Alabama before moving to Maryland.

When asked why she wanted to become a health teacher, she said, “I didn’t choose health, it chose me.” She said Sports Medicine was her original passion, but there was not an open job for sports medicine teachers. She added that Prince George’s County has a shortage of health teachers so instead of going into sports medicine, she went into health.

“I had my eye on Roosevelt for ten years,” Ms. Car’Mon explained. She taught at Forestville High School before coming to ERHS, and it just so happened that the year Forestville was closing down, Dr. David Jakob, one of the school’s oldest health teachers, was retiring.

Ms. Car’Mon said she loved her first three weeks here, but has to “get used to the ‘E-Roose’ way.” She commented that she struggles to get used to the 45 minute classes and hall duty. However, she is looking forward to “getting the victory garden back on track” during this school year. She is also excited for spirit week and the pep rally because she says that it will be her “first full blown experience.”

Junior Zachary Fortune, who is in one of Ms. Car’Mon’s classes, said that “the tests are pretty easy,” adding, “for me having no lunch, this is kind of like a break in my day honestly, but I still learn.” Freshman Jourdan Paige said that “the tests are pretty easy” and “we write notes and get information.”

During high school, Ms. Car’Mon was a member of the Vocational Industrial Clubs of America (VICA), which is a work study program. She also played flute in the band at her school, and is experienced in the piano and the xylophone.