For the last seven years, Susan Petersen has only gone to work three days a week. The River Oaks Elementary School teacher spends the other days at home writing lesson plans, taking care of her children or volunteering in their classrooms.
She is on one of eight teaching teams in the Galt Joint Union Elementary School District.
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