Bloomfield Hills' Hugh Watters Named Oakland County Middle School Teacher of the Year

Watters was surprised Thursday afternoon with a knock on his door by colleagues to make the announcement.

When administration of Bloomfield Hills and Oakland County schools knocked at the door of science teacher Hugh Watters' Bloomfield Hills Middle School classroom this afternoon, he wasn’t expecting it at all. In fact, he was preparing his eighth-grade students for a test Friday. That’s when the flood of colleagues came into his classroom with a handful of balloons and smiling faces to tell him he has been named the Oakland County Outstanding Middle School Teacher of the Year. “I saw all the balloons and thought it was someone’s birthday,” Watters said, laughing. “I didn’t think it was for me! I had no idea.” The top-secret surprise included a $2,000 grant from HAP through the Oakland Schools Education Foundation and the honor of being …

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