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In his fourth year at DHS, Mr. Dubay reflects on becoming a teacher and what could have been
WRITTEN BY MATT DOTY
For this issue, we sat down with Mr. Dubay, who is in his fourth year teaching at DHS, to learn more about him. Over the years, he’s taught history classes, but this year he’s become DHS’s resident economics teacher. He’s known for really getting to know his students. If you’d like to get him better listen to the full audio interview by scanning the QR code down below!
Q: Why did you become a teacher?
A: I grew up in Pinckney. I had a couple teachers there that were very influential in what I wanted to be. And I think, right from probably my junior year in high school, that’s when I was like, okay, I’m gonna focus on being a teacher. I had a really good psychology teacher, and a really good creative writing teacher that I thought were outstanding at what they did. They were really good at connecting with students, allowing students to be themselves, and allowing students to express themselves. Whether it be through projects, through writing, through videos, there were a lot of cool things that we could do. I just thought to myself, like, this is what I want to do, so their influence and impact on me has carried over. Those two stood out to me as being the two that really kind of molded me into who I am today. So with my classes, I try to allow my students to be themselves and to express themselves in a manner where they’re able to have a creative environment. So that was always something that I appreciated from them. And yeah, I applied to one college, it was Eastern which used to be a teaching factory. And that was, that’s where I went and graduated from there in 2011. The rest is history.
Q: If you weren’t a teacher, what would you want to be?
A: I love the fact that we’re using microphones here. I would definitely have been a sports broadcaster. I got into some broadcasting on a volunteer basis when I was in high school over in Pinckney. We had a local access sports television network that was student based, so we would go and broadcast games. And then when I got into college, I stayed at home. So I just commuted, and I would go back to the high school, I did that for 10 years. I’d broadcast basketball, football, hockey, all these different kinds of games. So I think if I looked at different career paths, I would love to get into sports broadcasting. I think that was always something that was cool to me. I have a deep love for sports. Yeah, that was always the number two backup plan. But I’m glad I stuck with teaching. I always think about what it would be like to be a sports broadcaster.
Q: Favorite sport to play?
A: I wish I was more active playing like, you know, softball leagues, rec basketball leagues, but I would think my favorite sport to play is probably football, like just, you know, pick up a football to throw around the backyard kind of deal. That was my main sport I played growing up, so I would say that football is probably the one that’s still the funnest to play.
