The school district's middle school orchestra teachers made their debut on the national news show, Good Morning America, in late September.

Identical twin sisters Sarah Lenhart and Becky Bush co-run Hudsonvilles’ middle school orchestra program together. Teaching at Baldwin Street Middle School, Riley Street Middle School, and the new 5/6 Building at Georgetown, these sisters teach grades six through eight. Lenhart spends most of her time at Riley, and Bush mostly at Baldwin, but the two come together to teach sixth grade at the 5/6 building. 

MLIVE reporter Melissa Frick was attending the 5/6 ribbon cutting ceremony and taking a tour of the music rooms when realizing that twin sisters were team teachers. This inspired her to write a human interest story that was then posted on MLIVE. TV station WZZM saw the article and came out and recorded footage of the class and interviewed some students and the twins. This aired on WZZMs’ 6:00 news. After the story aired, the ABC news show Good Morning America in New York City wanted to hear more. They did an interview over zoom with both teachers and used pictures and videos provided by the school’s public relations manager, Stephanie Fast. The story was posted on GMA Digital platforms on Thursday, September 28th, and posted on ABCs’ news feed as well.

“It was exciting and a little surreal to be interviewed by GMA. Since we did the MLIVE and WZZM interviews we had already had practice and rehearsed what we were going to say. The interviewer was very welcoming and asked great questions trying to gather the whole story,” said Bush. 

Teaching and living in the same district provide moments of confusion for the public. Bush and Lenhart are often mistaken for the other. “It gets very confusing for people who don’t know there are two of us. I’ve had many people come up to me thinking I’m Mrs. Lenhart or not know which twin they are talking to. We don’t mind though,” said Bush. 

The twins came up with creative solutions for their students. They wear different bright-colored lanyards every day while teaching, so the students can begin to recognize who is who. Over time, students are typically able to tell them apart. “We feed off of each other quite a lot…because we have such a common background and we’re so similar, we really can easily guess what the other person is thinking to do next in the classroom,” said Lenhart on their Good Morning America interview.