RALEIGH (March 6, 2025) – Apparently a math teacher knows how to play the odds.

Erin Walsh – who has taught for more than 30 years in Onslow County Schools – won our drawing among teachers who submitted Teachers Talk videos for two tickets to the UNC-Duke basketball game on Saturday.

In her video, Walsh recounts how she retired after 29 years of teaching, sat out six months, then returned to make more money as a part-time math teacher:

“If North Carolina wants to keep recruiting the best and the brightest, the pay scale must change,” she says.

“It is now frozen from year 15 to year 25, meaning your experience, your knowledge, your presence isn’t really valued, in my opinion…. North Carolina can do better.”