Instructor who taught more than 10K students will retire after one final class
Greg Espe gives a test to up-and-coming student drivers during class Sept. 17. After 33 years and more than 10,000 students and 1 million miles, Espe will retire at the completion of his last six-week class, which begins Tuesday.
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Coeur d'Alene School District driver's ed teacher Greg Espe, pictured Sept. 17 in his class at Coeur d'Alene High School, will retire at the conclusion of his final six-week course in November. He has taught more than 10,000 students in 33 years.
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A peacock is seen on a recent driver's ed adventure with Greg Espe.
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Driver education textbooks are seen Sept. 17 in Greg Espe's class.
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Newspaper clippings cover a corkboard in Greg Espe's class, memorializing the lives of young drivers that have been lost through the years.
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The closest Greg Espe ever came to dying in 33 years teaching driver's education for the Coeur d'Alene School District was during that very first year.
He was in a car full of to-be drivers. A student driver was at the wheel, going 65 mph in a snowstorm on the freeway.
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