Teacher in National Guard deployed for Biden inauguration teaches music remotely
Sgt. Jacob Kohut is a band teacher, and he s also in the U.S. National Guard, so when he was called up to Washington, D.C. ahead of president-elect Joe Biden s inauguration Wednesday, he knew he wanted to keep teaching his students remotely.
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Posted: Jan 19, 2021 5:44 PM ET | Last Updated: January 19
Jacob Kohut is a member of the National Guard and he s also a band teacher. He was called up to Washington, D.C. this week but has been doing classes with his students remotely, as shown here where he plays a flute in the back of a Humvee.(Submitted by Jacob Kohut)
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Jan 20, 2021
Sgt. Jacob Kohut, 34, has been a band teacher for more than 10 years, and has spent the past five enriching the lives of students at both Canterbury Woods and Frost Middle School in Fairfax County, Virginia, the
reported.
On top of being a band teacher, he is a National Guardsman who s taken his lessons to Zoom while being deployed.
Since arriving in D.C., Kohut has been giving his elementary school lessons on the drill floor of the D.C. Armory in the mornings before his 12-hour Guard shift, then teaching his middle schoolers from the back of a Humvee while on break, according to the post.
By SYDNEY PAGE | Special To The Washington Post | Published: January 18, 2021 District of Columbia National Guard Sgt. Jacob Kohut was on his only break during a 12-hour shift standing guard outside the U.S. Capitol. In the back of a Humvee, flute in hand, Kohut was teaching students how to play Ludwig van Beethoven s Ode to Joy through his laptop. Kohut, 34, is one of the more than 20,000 National Guard troops providing security as part of a massive operation in D.C. before President-elect Joe Biden s inauguration. Since his deployment to Washington on Jan. 13, Kohut has been on double duty, as an active member of the National Guard and a dedicated band teacher at public schools in Fairfax County, Va.