As Lubbock students and teachers headed back to school recently for a new year, Altah Swindle didn’t join them.
After 30 years as a teacher, Swindle said she has had mixed emotions about retiring.
Swindle won the Newton Excellence in Education Award from the Beaumont Foundation just two months before retiring from teaching sophomore English at Frenship High School.
“It was the right thing” to retire, Swindle said.
But knowing that her former co-workers were gearing up to start a new school year has really weighed on her mind in the last few weeks.