For forty-three years, I have been a classroom teacher in some sort or fashion. I spent twenty-nine years as a full-time teacher, most of which were in middle school classrooms. For the past fourteen years, since my retirement in 2010, I’ve been substitute teaching and filling in for teachers on an interim basis. There have been more than twenty of those interim posts. This past week, I’ve decided that it’s time for me to leave the classroom, at least for these interim positions. It’s definitely not an easy choice, but I know it’s time to say good-bye.
David Lee 