HAMPTON, Va. — You know those teachers you still think about decades later?
Linda Sawanowich is one of those teachers.
“I always wanted to be a teacher because of the teachers I had,” said Sawanowich.
Sawanowich has spent her entire 24-year career shaping young minds at Calvary Classical School in Hampton.
She is a Kindergarten teacher parents like Lisa Sava go out of their way to request.
“When it comes to a child she notices everything about that child that makes them unique,” said Sava.
Sawanowich is a teacher’s teacher, inspiring not only the young ones in her classroom but the people she works with also.
“She really is not only an inspiration as a fellow educator but as a person,” said Brooke Hayes, a first-grade teacher at Calvary.
This school year is ending on a sad note.
Calvary Classical didn’t bring in the enrollment numbers it needed to stay open. After 25 years, parents and students have to say goodbye to the school and Mrs. Sawanowich.
After next week, the school will close.
Everyone has one more week to cherish the small school with a big heart.
“We can never measure the lives [Sawanowich] touched,” said Hayes.