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School custodian Jenna Gros is teaching a group of fourth-graders how to convert fractions to decimals.

“How would you write 6/100 in decimal form?” she asks, and then waits patiently for them to come up with the correct answer.

Gros, pronounced “grow,” has been a custodian at Wyandotte Elementary School in St. Mary Parish, La., for more than 18 years, and now she’s also a teacher in training.

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