For most of the 42 years I’ve been a Palm Beach County high school English teacher , I’ve loved my job. If I had my life to live over, I would choose the same career. My greatest reward has come from students telling me I’ve made a positive difference in their lives.
My teachers and my mom’s reverence for teachers ignited my desire to teach.
Mom never forgot the kindness of the teachers who stayed after school to help her when she emigrated from Cuba in 1950. At 19, she had attended only two years of school, so she was hungry to learn. But she was placed in the third grade until she learned English…