Holcomb: The best teachers expect a lot and invest even more in their students

Some of what Eric Holcomb knows best about teaching and schools, he learned when he was a very young boy.

Holcomb’s mother was a teacher, first in Knox County and then in Indianapolis Public Schools before spending the rest of her career at Pittsboro Elementary School in Hendricks County.

“I went to work every day with my mother,” said  Holcomb, who attended the school where his mother taught. “I waited while she graded papers, and then would go home everyday with my mother. I spent a lot of time at school.”

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