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Teaching assistant recounts 11 years at Westside, balancing caregiving and a growing catering business

Unknown body (meeting transcript) · May 1, 2026
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A Westside teaching assistant told the meeting transcript she has worked at the school for about 11 years while caring for a child with cerebral palsy and building a catering business, saying district-level recognition was a surprise.

A teaching assistant at Westside said she has worked at the school for about 11 years and balances her role there with caring for a child who has cerebral palsy and running a local catering business.

"I moved home after 18 years and I became a substitute teacher... I fell in love with it," the teaching assistant said, describing her path from substitute to a permanent teaching-assistant position. She said administrators encouraged her to…

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