Bailie Thom set to teach business education

By MELISSA DUNN

Staff Writer

The NRHEG school district has employed a person of royalty as the new business education teacher; Miss Waseca County Sleigh and Cutter 2023 Bailie Thom has been settling in and getting ready for her classes. Thom, originally from St. Clair, says this will be her first full year of teaching. “I was hired by my fall student teaching placement to teach a few of their spring courses in La Crescent.”

Thom graduated from Winona State University in the Fall of 2022 with a bachelor degree in business education and a minor in coaching. “I always knew I was going to be a teacher,” she says,  “but what was I going to teach? That was always the question. I had my high school business teacher who guided me in the right direction.” Thom applied at NRHEG because “it felt like the right place to be.” 

Outside of school, Thom loves to spend time with family. “I could talk forever about my adorable nephew Boe. He is the sweetest little boy.” She says she is looking forward to the school year very much. “My favorite part of teaching is making connections with my students.  They will leave with some knowledge of how the world works outside my four walls and knowing they have a place in the school where they can feel seen and heard.”