Perez was placed at Beamer Elementary to complete her student teaching requirements and ended up falling in love with the program, students and community.
After a summer of patiently waiting, the now fourth grade students at Beamer Park Elementary School, along with the outgoing city of Woodland Mayor Vicky Fernandez and Woodland Joint Unified School District Superintendent Elodia Ortega-Lampkin held a ribbon cutting for the school's newest feature, a friendship bench.