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In this Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017 photo, teacher Lowell Outland, right, greets Sarah Hornback, a 17-year-old senior, who is excited to learn that she will have him as her teacher, on the first day of school at Tates Creek High School, in Lexington, Ky. Lowell Outland was a custodian at Tates Creek High School for seven years, a high school dropout who dreamed of becoming a teacher. With hard work, the 59-year-old Air Force veteran made it happen. On Wednesday, the first day of Fayette County Public Schools, Outland stepped to the front of his classroom as the new graphic arts and photography teacher at Tates Creek High School. (Charles Bertram/Lexington Herald-Leader via AP)
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