Annex Charter School teacher has spent more than a half-century in the classroom

Dean Seward is on his third teaching career and has no plans to retire from a job he loves and greets with renewed enthusiasm each day.
 “It’s the kids that keep me going. I have a passion for teaching,” he said. “I love my kids.”
 Seward, 74, commutes from Ontario, Ore., to Annex Charter School in Annex, Ore., to teach third and fourth-grades. He’s got a high energy level to match the kids in the classroom.