Janice Cox

My kindergarten-age son cried on my shoulder this morning when I delivered news that I read in The Herald-Dispatch a few minutes earlier, right before I left for work. Janice Cox, a kindergarten teacher at his school, died yesterday, I told him. Mrs. Cox wasn't Adam's teacher, but her room was right next to his, and he knew her.

Mrs. Cox was the kindergarten teacher for my first two children. They found her strict. She expected them to follow rules and learn.

I liked Mrs. Cox. We had some good conversations about my kids and about teaching and learning. Some teachers in Cabell County should be paid two or three times what they make now, and some should be shown the door and forever barred from school property. Mrs. Cox was one of the first group.