Joe Robert, whose real name is Joe Robert Lock, is a 61 year old retired school teacher who has taught special education in the central Florida school system for 22 years. Lock was born and raised in the Detroit, Michigan area and graduated from Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan in 1974 with a degree in English and education. He worked mostly in sales and retail management until he was 38 years old and then moved to Florida to achieve his long held goal of becoming a classroom teacher. Teaching jobs were scarce in Michigan in 1989, and he knew his chances of getting hired were better in Florida. He was offered a job teaching elementary developmentally delayed students. He took the… job, became certified in special education, and says he has never had any regrets. Lock has three children, Andrew, Vicki, and Mary; and two grand children, Cadence and Emma; and is engaged to another teacher, Anna Radosti.