{"id":7148,"date":"2013-05-31T11:20:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T16:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/?p=7148"},"modified":"2014-04-07T07:15:20","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T12:15:20","slug":"mrs-chaney-is-ready-to-move-on-to-the-next-step-in-her-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/?p=7148","title":{"rendered":"Mrs. Chaney is Ready to Move on to the Next Step in Her Life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mrs. Donna Chaney is looking forward to dedicating more time to her family once she retires. Photo by: Patricia Ortiz<\/p><\/div>\n

By Patricia Ortiz<\/em><\/p>\n

On May 31st the Plymouth High School class of 2013 will experience their last day of high school.\u00a0 For several faculty members May 31st is the last day that they will be at PHS as teachers.<\/p>\n

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Mrs. Donna Chaney is one of the four teachers who will be retiring at the end of this year.\u00a0 After, 34 years of teaching at PHS she is hanging up her lab coat and moving on towards the next step in her life.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Chaney decided to retire once she realized that her job was getting to be more demanding.\u00a0 She was working 12-14 hour work days.\u00a0 The hours that she dedicated to her job were so long because, \u201cit is the time the job demands to do it well.\u201d\u00a0 All this demand from her job gave her little time to dedicate to her family.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Chaney\u2019s husband was \u201crelieved\u201d that she was retiring so that she could dedicate more time to their home.\u00a0 She says that after 34 years of \u201cdedicated life to Plymouth Community Schools it is time to dedicate my life to my family while I still can.\u00a0 While I still have my health.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like the majority of those who are retiring Mrs. Chaney has plans for the next step in her life.\u00a0 She says she is \u201clooking forward to the next career the one career that God has planed for me.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what that is and in the mean time I need to keep searching for that educating myself [and] getting ready, keep my eyes open, keep my ears open and I know there is something out there for me that I will be directed to.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll miss the interaction with the kids, definitely.\u00a0 The camaraderie with the staff,\u201d\u00a0 are some of the things that Mrs. Chaney will miss once she leaves the halls of PHS.<\/p>\n

Just like there are happy parts to retiring there are also difficult parts to retiring. For Mrs. Chaney the most difficult part about retiring would be the uncertainty of finances.\u00a0 \u201cNot knowing whether you are financially stable enough,\u201d to retire.<\/p>\n

The joys of teaching can range from interacting with students to getting to know each student individually.\u00a0 The joys of teaching are different for every teacher.\u00a0 For Mrs. Chaney the best part about teaching is seeing the success of her students.\u00a0 She likes to see her students succeed and come back to the community, \u201cand put back into the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once Mrs. Chaney retires she plans on not only spending more time with her family but also dedicating time to her garden or \u201criding on top of the big Kaboda tractor around the property but also to be more active and involved with the church.\u00a0 Whatever they need me to do.\u201d\u00a0 She said she has no clear cut plan but the one thing she knows for certain she will do after retirement is spend more time with her family.\u00a0 Mrs. Chaney says that she is, \u201copen to what the day will bring.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mrs. Chaney\u2019s parting words to her colleagues and her students is that, \u201cLife is a challenge,\u201d and that they need to take on that challenge.
\nMrs. Chaney will surely be missed because she taught many students that, \u201cChemistry is a Foreign Language.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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