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Idyllwild School will suffer the loss of six long-time teachers next month. Here (from left) are Holly Guntermann, Diane D\u2019Arcy, Vic Scavarda and Iva Botton. Photos by J.P. Crumrine<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nWhen the school year ends in a few weeks, six Idyllwild School teachers \u2014 Iva Botton, Patty Carratello, Diane D\u2019Arcy, Joan Gray, Holly Guntermann and Vic Scavarda\u2014 will close their classroom doors for the final time.<\/p>\n

More than 125 years of experience will walk away from the local school. <\/p>\n

Idyllwild School enrollment is barely one percent of Hemet Unified School District\u2019s total population, yet this year, the six Idyllwild teachers represent 12 percent of the total district teachers taking the special early retirement and almost 40 percent of the local school\u2019s faculty.
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Iva Botton<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\n\u201cIt will be a huge impact,\u201d said Idyllwild School Principal Matt Kraemer. He\u2019s also hoping the future retirees will stay involved with school activities. Kraemer said he plans to continue many of the programs Carratello instituted such as trips to Los Angeles\u2019 Museum of Tolerance.<\/p>\n

If he selects replacements from within the district, the new faculty may be in place before school ends. While this is a tremendous loss of experience, it is also an opportunity for new energy, new ideas and a new generation of teachers.<\/p>\n

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Patty Carratello<\/figcaption><\/figure>Iva Botton<\/strong>
\nShe is very happy with her decision and has no current plans for next year. She said her determination and ability to adjust to change is considerable since she did not start teaching until she was 50, only 15 years ago.<\/p>\n

Patty Carratello<\/strong>
\nShe has been very active among Idyllwild School faculty, but the past twelve months have been very difficult because of her health. She said this is the right thing to do.
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Diane D'Arcy<\/figcaption><\/figure>It also gives her time to finish her dissertation and earn her doctorate in education.<\/p>\n

Despite the freedom, she said she\u2019ll \u201cmiss the joy of teaching. I love to teach. I enjoy being with students. I see possibilities, strengths, skills and hope.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Joan Gray<\/figcaption><\/figure>Diane D\u2019Arcy<\/strong>
\n\u201cI\u2019m a little nervous,\u201d admitted this teacher. But she also confided that next year would likely have been her last year of teaching if her special retirement package had not been available this spring.<\/p>\n

While she plans to stay in Idyllwild, there may be a little more travel in her future.<\/p>\n

Joan Gray<\/strong>
\nShe plans to stay in Idyllwild. She\u2019ll devote time to her grandchild and will likely be a future smARTS volunteer. \u201cI want to find out what it\u2019s like to not live by a school system schedule,\u201d she said with a smile.
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Holly Guntermann<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nShe very much enjoyed her time with kids and eventually the second generation of some of her students. A local mother once told her how much she was reminded of her teacher at Desert Hot Springs. At the next conference, they discovered that Gray was that former teacher. <\/p>\n

Holly Guntermann <\/strong>
\nShe is well known in Idyllwild, not only as the school physical education teacher and coach of several sports, but as one of the founders of the Annual 5 & 10K Run and Fitness Walk to support the program.<\/p>\n

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Vic Scavarda<\/figcaption><\/figure>As she reminisced about her career, Guntermann frequently mentioned the connections between the school and the community. These moments will always be important for her.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll miss the kids,\u201d Guntermann said. \u201cBut I\u2019ll stay around.\u201d She would be available for coaching if none of the faculty wanted to coach a sport.<\/p>\n

Vic Scavarda<\/strong>
\nHe leaves with the most and widest experience. His teaching career began in Australia. Both Scavarda and Guntermann began at Idyllwild School in 1979. <\/p>\n

He also admitted the idea of retirement was not a sudden event, but he\u2019s happy going this year because of the wonderful class. But he too is thinking about future involvement at the school, including smARTS.
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Botton, Carratello, D’Arcy, Gray, Guntermann and Scavarda take with them a combined 125 years experience in schools …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":9987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[20],"yoast_head":"\nSix Idyllwild School teachers retiring • Idyllwild Town Crier<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2012\/05\/15\/six-idyllwild-school-teachers-retiring\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutes\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/\",\"name\":\"Idyllwild Town Crier\",\"description\":\"Almost All the News \\u2014\\u00a0Part of the Time\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2012\/05\/15\/six-idyllwild-school-teachers-retiring\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/teachers-Group.jpg\",\"width\":\"500\",\"height\":\"333\",\"caption\":\"Idyllwild School will suffer the loss of six long-time teachers next month. Here (from left) are Holly Guntermann, Diane D\\u2019Arcy, Vic Scavarda and Iva Botton. Photos by J.P. Crumrine\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2012\/05\/15\/six-idyllwild-school-teachers-retiring\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2012\/05\/15\/six-idyllwild-school-teachers-retiring\/\",\"name\":\"Six Idyllwild School teachers retiring • Idyllwild Town Crier\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2012\/05\/15\/six-idyllwild-school-teachers-retiring\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2012-05-16T01:48:22+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-02-04T22:49:09+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/#\/schema\/person\/aeae3367986290257fc0e23a23079bb5\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2012\/05\/15\/six-idyllwild-school-teachers-retiring\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/#\/schema\/person\/aeae3367986290257fc0e23a23079bb5\",\"name\":\"JP Crumrine\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/289a47b0cbb194a66eb24aa93f19f915?s=96&d=retro&r=g\",\"caption\":\"JP Crumrine\"},\"description\":\"JP Crumrine is news editor of the Idyllwild Town Crier newspaper.\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9985"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17511,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9985\/revisions\/17511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}