After over 30 years in the teaching profession Sharon Smith has put away her chalk and may have erased her last words from the blackboard but education has not heard the last of her and if given the opportunity, she has much more to offer.
“Teaching is a very challenging job, but challenges are good because they force you to set high standards and achieve them, but you can’t do it without God…,” Smith told the Sunday Stabroek in a recent interview.
Over the years, hundreds of children benefited from Smith’s tutelage, some whose lives she impacted outside the formal classroom setting, along with some of their parents. In fact it was the parent of one of her former students who