Anthony Sorrentino:  

I am not the best typist and am awful at proof-reading my own stuff, so sorry in advance for what will definitely be some typos in this. Well, since I graduated from Shaler...I went to Pitt and got a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics. Hell, I was in classes with some of my Shaler classmates who were also math majors. I then attended the School of Education to earn my Master of Arts in Teaching. I became a math teacher and not the doctor that I always felt I would be when in high school. I figured that I could not handle being around sick people so I thought being a doctor would not be a good idea. I bounced around several jobs for a while. Not to complain, but I do not have connections which means I have to find teaching positions based solely on my abilities and that can make getting a job as a teacher tough. In fact, I have known many of the peoplke I went to school with who wanted to be teachers have long since given up. I however knew that was what I was supposed to do, so I stuck with it. I put in time being a day-to-day substitute for the Pittsburgh Public Schools, I became a Job-Readiness Teacher/Coach for Connelley Technical Institute and Adult Education Center, a full-time substitute position at Carlynton jr./Sr. High School, a Child Development Specialist at the Bradley Center (both on a full-time and part-time basis), and a teacher at an alternative school in Upper St. Clair. I finally landed my current position as a Mathematics Teacher at St. Joseph High School in Natrona Heights. A lot of my friends think it is odd that I teach in a Catholic school, but overall, I like it. Oh yeah, when ...Expand for more