For this edition of our Teacher Feature, we talk to social studies teacher and assistant boys volleyball coach Mr. Blake Schaub.

Q: What is your favorite topic to teach in civics and government?

A: It’s a tie between the early American topics such as the founding of the nation, and I’ve really come to enjoy teaching the civil rights aspect of it.

Q: What is your favorite concert that you’ve seen?

A:It was in 1999 X Fest was up there. There’s a whole bunch of different bands. The other one would be the last leg of the Program’s World tour in 2003. I actually saw them back to back weekends.

Q: What is your favorite sport and what team?

A: Football. It’s weird because I like it the most because it’s only one day a week that I have to ever really watch it. The Steelers are my favorite professional football team and Penn State is my favorite collegiate team.

Q: What was your first car?

A: 1988 Chevy Celebrity. It was two doors. It was brown. It had velvet seats. And for a portion of the time that I owned it, you could take the key out while it was on, and it would stay on. You could also turn the car on without the key. It was an old person’s car, and I loved it very much.

Q: What would your last meal be?

A: It would have to be pepperoni pizza from a Viva brick oven and more. I love that pizza. I don’t know what it is about it, but anytime I get to pick where we’re eating, that’s what I pick. I want a whole pizza not just a slice. 

Q: What is a piece of advice that you would give to your younger self?

A: One, don’t just say you don’t care what people think; actually don’t care what people think. Secondly, the things that you have and the things that you possess don’t define who you are.

Q: What is your favorite genre of music?

A: My wife calls it depression music. I listen to 90s and 2000 rock. 

Q: Who would you want to be if you couldn’t be yourself?

A: Marc-Andre Fleury in the 2009 Stanley Cup Finals when he made this huge save right at the end of the game to essentially win the Stanley Cup.

Q: What was one of the craziest places you’ve ever been to?

A:New Orleans is up there and it is an experience like nothing I’ve could ever imagine. I’ve been to Vegas before and New Orleans is just a different generation.

Q: If you could meet someone (dead or alive) and have a 30-minute conversation with them, who would it be and what would you talk about?

A: President Obama. That would be an interesting experience for sure. Second, along the same lines, with everything I’ve ever heard about Bill Clinton and his personality, I would like to talk to him too. I think that talking to President Obama for 30 minutes and having conversations with with somebody who had tremendous with different experiences in their anything that I could ever write.

Q: What’s the worst attempt at cheating that you’ve seen?

A: In the technological age now, all you need is a phone. It is the laziest kind of cheating ever. You don’t have to put any effort into it. When I was in college or high school, there was a kid that had all the answers taped to the brim of his hat.

Q: Who of your fellow teachers do you get along with best?

A: The whole social studies department for me. We all kind of have similar personalities.

Q: What movie prop would you take from any movie?

A: Indiana Jones’ whip.