Rock Hills third grade teacher, Meghan Cason, was born in Virginia. Her father was in the military, so she grew up moving a lot. She has lived in eight different states. The state she lived in the longest was Arizona.

Cason went to a private Catholic school called Lexington Catholic in Lexington, Ky., for high school. "For college, I graduated from Kenyon, a small, liberal arts school no one outside of Ohio has heard of," Cason said. She was recruited to play volleyball there. Cason graduated 18 months ago.

Cason moved to Jewell County two months ago to teach Jump Start over the summer. "It's...