Lake City High teacher retires after 30 years
A group of former students surprised Scott Jacobson with a June 10 visit to Lake City High School before he officially retired. From left: Jimmy Robnett, Jamari Lawson, son and Lake City Game Creators founder Tyler Jacobson, Scott Jacobson, Rob Rhodes, Kaitlyn Finney Finney with son James, Talon Murray, Corey Koerner and Zachary Murray.
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Scott Jacobson's earliest staff photo at Lake City High School, where he taught science and game design over the course of 30 years. He retired at the end of this school year.
Always a fan of science, newly retired Lake City High game design teacher Scott Jacobson is seen in this May 19, 1973 Coeur d'Alene Press photo when he was the grand prize winner of the Bryan Elementary fifth grade science fair.
It took some time to sink in before Scott Jacobson could really articulate what it felt like to be retired.
"Everybody's been asking me the last two, three weeks, 'How's it feel to be retired?' but there's been so much paperwork and tidying up and everything," he said Wednesday. “Not until after this morning was the first time it’s actually hitting me, this wave of not having to worry 'bout some student's project or following up on some issue.
"I slept like a baby last night," he said. "I haven't slept like that in forever!"
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