A lucky teacher wins $1 million in Powerball lottery game recently
So after a retired teacher realized she and 29 of her colleagues had a winning Powerball ticket, she knew there was a perfect place to keep the ticket safe page 200 of an old math textbook.
Thirty educators at Rector A. Jones Middle School from Florence, Kentucky, purchased a winning $1 million Powerball ticket on Saturday, January 27, after playing the game together for eight years.
When the group's organizer, a retired teacher who is remaining anonymous, realized they had pooled the correct numbers, she promptly put the ticket in the book until the group was ready to go down to the Kentucky Lottery on Tuesday afternoon.
"No one looks in a math book," she joked about hiding the ticket to the Kentucky Lottery. "I knew it would be safe there… I have checked this a thousand times."
After taxes, each of the "Jones 30" — the nickname for the group which consists of school nurses, administrators, counselors, and teachers — took home $24,000 each.
