by Garthia Elena Burnett - cdispatch.com
As 51-year-old Mark Sanders stands towering over a group of West Lowndes Elementary School fourth graders talking about decimals or long division, he commands attention. The group is silent and poised to answer any questions he might ask.
It's just another day in the classroom for Sanders, who - in his five years of teaching fourth- and fifth-grade remedial math - has been a bit of an anomaly. Women still dominate the elementary education field.
And Sanders is one of only a handful of male educators working in public schools in Lowndes County.
