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Teaching is not a job that everyone is cut out for,but it is one of the most fulfilling jobs someone canhave. A teacher can see their impact on society for
generations to come.To teach in the field of arts is perhaps even moredifficult, due to diminishing support for arts in school.Arts can bolster the most creative insight in someoneand will always be a very valuable part of education.
“Even when other things in your life are not goingthe way you want them to, if you work in some sort of creative field, whether it be visual arts, music, writ-ing, pottery or any of that, as long as you are doingsomething that comes from inside you, no matter howbad the rest of the stuff is, that’s an escape and you canalways go there,” Elaine Little said.
Little was an arts teacher that had worked withinthe Gordon County School system and the Calhoun CitySchool system since 1989 until she retired in 2010.
In Gordon County she started out teaching at RedBud Elementary School and Belwood ElementarySchool as a music specialist. Then she got a job teach-ing at Ashworth Middle School where she was thechoral director for three years. She next got a jobteaching music at Calhoun High School and CalhounMiddle School.
After she spent time at both, sh was offered tochoose to work solely at either one, and she chooseCHS, where she spent the remainder of her teachingcareer. She didn’t start out in Gordon County, but thisis where she ended up.
“No one knows where I was born,” Little said. “Iwas adopted, my parents got me when I was 5 days old,but I’m from Newton.”
Little grew up in a musical family. Her fathertaught guitar lessons and her mother taught pianolessons. They both played in church, where Little’sdad led the singing and her mother played the piano.According to Little she has always been very passion-ate about music.
“Something my dad told me once was when I wasthree or four he came home one day and I was look-ing really sad and he said ‘what’s wrong’ so I told himI had been thinking I wanted to write music when Igrow up, but it's going to be a long time before I grew
up, and they probably will have written all the songsby the time I’m old enough,” Little said.
As she got into her teenage years, and all of herfriends were getting jobs at fast food restaurants and
Elaine Little:Leaving a legacy through her students
By Aaron MannStaff Writer
“It makes me feel wonderful to see the kids I taughtdoing something in the field. Some days it’s like you are
going through the motions and think 'why do we do this?' Andthen you see those people (the ones you taught) doing the samething and doing it well. It’s like everyday you wondered if it was
worth it, and it was.” -Elaine Little
Elaine Little, second from right, stands with students after being named runner up at the 2010 State LiteraryEvents.
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