1. Please provide your full name.

       Sammy (yes - Sammy) Grant Burnett.

 

2. What do you do on your free time?

        Mrs. Burnett and I hike, camp, travel, and ride motorcycles.

 

3. What is your favorite thing/activity to do?

         Hanging out with Mrs. Burnett.  

     

4. What classes do you teach?

        AP Government & Government. I have also taught U.S. History & Economics.

 

5. Tell us about your family.

        Mrs. Burnett and I have been married for just over 2 years. We moved to  Durham right after we got married and bought a house in Oroville 18 months ago.

 

6. What is your favorite color?

         Orange - I don't know why.

 

7. What is your favorite food?

      Pepperoni pizza of course.

 

8. Do you enjoy coaching football and wrestling?  Why?

      I enjoy coaching football and wrestling because I feel sports instill a sense of pride and confidence in young men and women that will help them throughout their lives.

 

9. How did you become a teacher at LP?

       My wife and I decided that we wanted to have better "quality of life" and to be closer to camping, hunting and fishing without leaving California. We looked all over the state deciding on Butte and Sonora counties. I found a job here first.

 

10. Where did you go to school?

      High School = Atascadero (just north of San Luis Obispo on Hwy101) / College = Sonoma State University.

 

11. Where were you born? Where did you grow up?

        Los Angeles, but I don't remember much about LA, my folks moved to Atascadero when I was in pre school.

 

12. Name some major events that happened in your life.

        Getting married, graduating college (the first in my family), deciding on teaching as a career, my 1st motorcycle, skydiving, being in Army special operations and combat (yikes), and coaching/playing football and wrestling.

 

13. Do you have a favorite quote? If so, what is it?

      

    ".... so it goes." - Kurt Vonnegut

   

    "Giving money and power to government is like giving car keys and whiskey to teenage boys" - P.J. O'Rourke

 

     "Be good" - Bob Burnett (my pop)

 

    "Yeah, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy   rod and thy staff, they comfort me." - Psalm 23:4