21.   Matt Parsons, who teaches fifth grade at Mirada, said the Intel people have been helpful but not overbearing.

22.   Meanwhile, in September, the principal granted his request to teach first grade.

23.   Mrs. Piper teaches fourth grade.

24.   My grandmother taught eight grades in a one-room schoolhouse in Georgia in the post-Depression years.

25.   Ms. King-Esquer hopes to go on to teach second grade.

26.   Ms. Sweeney teaches fourth grade at Hawes Elementary School in Ridgewood, N.J.

27.   Paul Benitez Jr. now teaches sixth grade at Bird Middle School in suburban Sun Valley.

28.   Patsy Johnson has taught first grade, been a school board president and worked her fingers to the bone as a PTA officer.

29.   Rowland said she was told to get both a general elementary license and an early childhood license because she did not know what grade she would teach.

30.   Sandy Carr taught first grade this year at Acreage Pines Elementary School in Loxahatchee, Fla. and finds the last day of school bittersweet.