Mrs. Carol Payne was born in 1947, in Columbus Ohio. She has been teaching at Four County Career Center for twenty-four year. Mrs. Payne taught in Columbus for eight years, then moved to Four County when she got married. Someone suggested Four County Career Center to her because they said it was a good place to teach. Mrs. Payne became a teacher because she loves kids. Mrs. Payne graduated high school at Smith High in Columbus. She went to college at West Liberty in West Virginia. Mrs. Payne got her Master's Degree at Defiance College. She has been married to her husband Jim, for twenty-four years. They met in Columbus at the junior high she was teaching at. He was a student teacher and she was completing her first year of teaching. While they never had any children, when people ask her if she has any children she says yes, a lot! Those would be her students at school.

Mrs. Payne’s funniest moment was when she was leaving for school one morning and went to back out of the garage. She hit the door because she forgot to put it up! She had to call the school and tell them what happened because she ended up breaking that garage door and couldn't go to school that day.

In her spare time she does work around the house, walks her dog Maile, which is a Hawaiian name that means good luck. She also helps her mother and her mother-in-law. Her hobbies are reading and decorating.

According to Mrs. Payne there really isn’t anything to know about her you wouldn’t expect, because everyone knows her pretty well.