With the absence of business teacher and assistant DECA adviser Ms. Muench from the school, someone new has taken charge in her classroom.

Micah Hutton, who has taken the role of the new business and marketing teacher, already has much experience teaching in this subject, as he was a business teacher at McCluer High School which is where he graduated high school himself. While teaching at McCluer, Hutton was also the DECA adviser at the school, where he took his students to competitions around the state and country, preparing them for business in the real world.

However, a few years before he started teaching at McCluer, Hutton was a student teacher at Liberty, where he was able to be a part of our community and learn the ways of how the school worked, especially in the business department.

“I live very close by here, so I wanted to be part of the community, so when I started my teaching journey, it started here, and then a position opened up so I took it,” Hutton said.

While taking the business teaching place of Ms. Muench, he has also taken the role of being the assistant adviser of DECA at the school alongside Ms. Taylor.

Hutton teaches five of the business classes at Liberty, Business Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management, Marketing I, Marketing, II, and Marketing III. Ever since he started here, Hutton has changed the mind of students and their understanding about what marketing is, including one of his Marketing I students, Brooke Bischof (11).

“I really like Mr. Hutton, I think he’s really put on a perspective on what I thought marketing was about,” Bischof said. “I think he teaches it very well for a better explanation and how to understand it all, like the different ways and approaches to go about marketing and to have a consumer come your way and sell them your product.”

With the subtraction of a teacher and the addition of a new one in the same subject, the style of the class comes with its similarities, but it also comes with the differences. One major difference in the way the two teach the subject or class. Some of their ideas will stay the same, some might mix together, and some might change completely. For Marketing III student Cole Packingham (12) there isn’t a right or wrong answer.

“I think with marketing, it’s interesting because you don’t have a right answer, there’s a lot of different answers for marketing,” Packingham said. “He’s taught at other schools in the same class, so it’s kind of compatible, and he and Muench actually got together and talked about how they wanted to address the class, so it really hadn’t changed to be honest. But he makes it more fun and marking is interesting.”