Prior to working at Lake St. George Elementary, Susan Adams started her career as a kindergarten teacher at Westgate Elementary School in St. Pete.<\/p>\n
PALM HARBOR, Fla. \u2014 After more than four decades of teaching, the last remaining original staff member at one Pinellas County School is retiring.<\/p>\n
Pinellas County Schools announced the retirement of Susan Adams, who has taught at Lake St. George Elementary in Palm Harbor since it first opened in 1988.<\/p>\n
Throughout her 46-year career, Adams mostly taught kindergarten before eventually teaching first and second graders.<\/p>\n
Before working at Lake St. George Elementary, she started her career as a teacher at Westgate Elementary School in St. Pete for around a decade.<\/p>\n
Adams herself attended school in the county, starting at Fairmount Park Elementary before graduating from Gibbs High School in St. Pete.<\/p>\n
Her children also graduated from Pinellas County Schools, including one daughter who is also a teacher in the district.<\/p>\n
District officials describe Adams as someone who loves helping children discover their potential and strengths.<\/p>\n
“She loves their curiosity, kindness, and eagerness to learn,” the district wrote in a statement.<\/p>\n
When speaking to 10 Tampa Bay News, Adams says she believes primary-grade children are often underestimated in terms of what they are capable of.<\/p>\n
“They teach me something each and every day, I’d have to say, and in addition to that, they put a smile on your face every day,” she said.<\/p>\n
After nearly half a century of educating generations of youth, Adams says she is going to miss the students and all the relationships she’s built over the years the most.<\/p>\n
“I love what I do, I look forward to my job each and every day, and I think that’s going to be a huge adjustment for me,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prior to working at Lake St. George Elementary, Susan Adams started her career as a kindergarten teacher at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-285144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}