Taught About Tea

Taught About Tea

By Susanna Boeyink  

                                                                                                                                    

On September 22, 2015, Todd Rubin president of Republic of Tea came to visit Mrs. Ketzer’s fifth grade class. He came after I asked him if I could write a story about Republic of Tea for our class journalism unit in writing. We had originally scheduled to Skype with Mr.Rubin on the 21st of September, but he had to cancel because he had to travel. Later we found out that he would be able to come to Captain on the 22nd, and we could meet in real life instead of through a computer screen.

Mr. Rubin went to Clayton High for four years graduating in 1999. Mr. Rubin subsequently went on to college studying architecture.

“Architecture helped me become more creative,” he said. Mr. Rubin then went on to work at the family buisness, Republic of Tea. Mr. Rubin has worked at Republic of Tea for eight years.  His family has owned the company since he was fourteen, and he was twenty seven when he went to work at Republic of Tea.

Mr. Rubin enjoys hearing feedback from Republic of Tea customers, also known as citizens. He says that working at Republic of Tea means that you have to collaborate with others.  We later sampled some of his tea and enjoyed learning how tea was made. He showed us some of Republic of Tea’s loose tea and how people roll the leaves into a tight ball. We also learned about the five major countries where tea comes from. Also we got to learn about the differences between black tea, red tea, and green tea. Towards the end we got to take a picture with Mr. Rubin as an entire class, some of us holding Republic of Tea teas. We enjoyed learning about tea with president of Republic of Tea, Todd Rubin. We will continue to drink Republic of Tea tea in class.