Cairo Association of Teachers - Newsletter



CAT Tracks for December 4, 2005
102 & 85

Well...just received an e-mail from a fellow CAT...sending news that presents a challenge indeed!

Having achieved the status of "Top CAT" in seniority, folks keep asking how long I plan to continue teaching. Since this is my 37th year...and I didn't do the 2.2 upgrade...I've got to do AT LEAST another year after this one. Then...

My response to the "retirement question" usually consists of either:

Now...thanks to my "friend", these responses may not have been far off target!

So...gotta sleep on this! Do I set my sights on this new goal...or do I just "hang it up", realizing that I have definitely met my match?

If you don't see me tomorrow, you'll know that I have chosen the latter...

From the UK's The Times...

Teacher retires at the age of 102

Albina Cruces Vázquez has retired as a teacher in Mexico at the age of 102, after an 85-year career. “I don’t want to go into retirement, but it is time to give way to some new ideas,” she told Reforma newspaper. She became a teacher in 1920 in Guanajuato state, with a starting salary of one peso a day, and moved to Mexico City eight years later. In 1947, she founded the Eduardo Noveo primary school, which she ran for 58 years.

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