New chapters can be exciting and scary at the same time. They can include stepping out of your comfort zone and experiencing something quite revealing about who you are. AHS social studies teacher David Fregly is leaving AHS after three years and heading back to his roots in upstate New York or Pennsylvania.

Why have you chosen this time to leave AHS?

I am leaving mostly because I want to find a place where I can settle with my family and continue my career in teaching, but in an area where we can have a house, yard and be closer to friends and family.

Is it true that you are possibly going to live on a family farm and farm while looking for a teaching job?

If I don’t get a teaching job I will probably be farming and in the winter time guiding kayaks down in Florida.

   Do you have any experience with farming?

Not really no, other than last summer and I would just be helping with my father-in-law.

   What will you miss most about AHS?

The commitment you guys have to your learning how easy it is to sell my lessons to history to you guys. I’m going to miss that because I don’t know if I’ll experience that again and I’ll miss Ex Ed program which made a huge impact on me which I won’t forget.

What is the best learning experience you have had here?  

The best learning experience I’ve had was my first year doing and planning my first Ex Ed. I just decided to go all in and take a group of eighteen kids to the Florida Keys and learning along the way that it’s possible to kill your students on Ex Ed and how to get it right in the years to come.

Do you hope to implement some of the programs we have had here wherever you end up teaching?

There’s one district in New York that if I end up back there I will take over their Model UN program and I will be able to use what I did here there. If the district has an interest I would like to start some kind of Outdoor Ed program and it would be to the extent of AHS, but at least there would be some outdoor experience where I could keep the personal relationships I gain with students.