Tanis s unit was deployed in response to the riot at the U.S. Capitol building. Author: Nate Belt Updated: 11:40 PM EST February 3, 2021
ADA, Mich. A West Michigan high school teacher has taken distance learning to a new level. Darren Tanis began the month of January teaching math at Forest Hills Eastern like he s done for years. It was like so sudden, but I was really proud of him, says Karissa DenBraber, a senior at FHE and one of Tanis s students.
Then with almost no notice, Tanis got a call to leave his classroom behind and head to Washington D.C. with his unit of the National Guard.
MI teacher keeps up lessons while on deployment
Darren Tanis has been uploading lessons from his D.C. hotel room
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WXMI â There are lessons you can teach by saying, and there are lessons you can teach by doing. Darren Tanis â or Mister Tanis to his students â is doing the latter, in a few different ways.
The 12-year teaching veteran, and 5-year literal veteran of the Michigan National Guard, was deployed to Washington D.C. shortly after the Capitol riots in early January. His math class at Forest Hills Eastern was left with a permanent replacement, but as his deployment kept getting extended, Tanis decided he wasnât going to lose the connection he had with his kids.