By: Jason Rogers –

Stephani Olson is a second-year Business teacher here at Southeast.  She’s originally from McCook, Nebraska, where she graduated from McCook High School.  She then went on to major in International Business at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, and then got her teaching degree as a backup.  Interestingly enough, she student-taught here at LSE.

“It was kind of coming home to come back here, so I was really excited,” Olson said about getting a job here.  After graduating college, she went on to law school, and worked as a legal secretary and a law clerk.  However, she didn’t really like doing that, and one day she decided to quit.

“When I missed my step-son’s seventh birthday party because I was working at the law firm, I decided to go back into teaching,” Olson said.  Before coming to teach at Southeast in 2016, Olson taught at Deer Creek Middle School and Lakewood High School in Colorado, as well as Red Cloud High School in Nebraska.

“So far I like Southeast the best, but the other schools gave me a different perspective,” Olson said.  “Lakewood High School was my first big school.  They had 1,600 kids from grades 9-12.  Then I went to Red Cloud High School, where they had 100 kids from grades 7-12.”

To conclude, Mrs. Olson had some advice to the student body regarding their respective careers.  “Pick something that you love, and something that you enjoy doing, because you are going to be doing it for a long time,” she said.  “You have to love your career, because it’s hard getting up in the morning if you don’t love what you’re doing.”