He said that's when he got hooked on teaching. I loved the challenge of teaching people who didn't know how light bulbs worked. Then it was off to Egypt in 1989 as a Fulbright scholar in another exchange program. Under these programs, teachers swap jobs and houses for a year. As a Corryang High School teacher, Metzger got to advise the prestigious Victorian Youth Development Project, a club that trains kids to be firefighters He also got to sit on a 10-member school board and a curriculum council and was welcomed into the local Rotary Club.
School boards operate differently in Australia.
At least six board members are parents, and their appointments end when their children are out of school. And at least two board members are school staffers. Outside of its two major cities, Australia is a land of few people and vast distances. There's a six-week break at the end of the school year. It amounts to 210 school days, compared with 180 in the United States.