Walter Erickson, 80, is a retired teacher who’s been a substitute in a Minneapolis school district since 1991. Almost every day of the school year, Erickson is at Champlin Park High School.
Last week, his students gave back to him in a way he never would have expected.
Mr. Erickson / GoFundMe
“He’s just impacted so many of our lives in amazing ways,” Katie Blodgett, a senior at Champlin Park, told CBS Minnesota. “He’s the kind of substitute teacher where he connects with us more on a personal level and he obviously loves what he does and that makes it more encouraging for us to learn.
”Mr. Erickson has been saving up to pay for his wife to get cataract surgery and some much needed dental work.
“When we found out the surgery may not…
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