Thursday, December 10, 2009

Love of Teaching

This from the LA Times:

Retired Los Angeles teacher

keeps at it, for free

The district balked at first, but now Bruce Kravets is back in the classroom at Palms Middle School doing what he loves.

Five mornings a week, Bruce Kravets, 66, puts on a coat and tie, straps on his helmet and bikes to work at Palms Middle School on L.A.'s Westside, where he teaches math. For free.

Last June, after 42 years of teaching, Kravets retired.

He'd put so much money into his retirement fund over the decades, his monthly compensation if he stepped down would be greater than his regular pay. But that didn't mean he was ready to abandon teaching. His plan was to stay on and teach for no salary, because he couldn't think of anything more fun or rewarding than teaching algebra, geometry, logic and stage craft...

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