With the high value placed on education, a lot of credit needs to be paid to the teachers. He recounts, “I’ve been doing it [teaching at the college level] for about 40 years now; certainly 30 full-time. At the time, he was teaching all grade levels at Justice High School, a charter school in Lafayette. Schefferstein has been passionate about teaching all students, of any age, since he was in college himself. He has been teaching for nearly fifteen years at the collegiate level, explaining, “I go wherever the data goes.