After IT, sales, restaurant management and bartending, David Sanda discovered his love for teaching later in life than most. Sanda, one of the newly-added SCHS staff members, teaches geometry and chemistry.

When Sanda taught bartending school, he discovered he liked the education part of his job, so he decided to get his teaching credentials.

“And I pretty much just started collecting [teaching credentials] like baseball cards,” Sanda said.

His first credentials were for physics and biology.  He applied to become a physics teacher because “no one else had an excuse to have a roller coaster in their classroom,” but someone beat him to the position. The same school said if he got a biology credential the position was his.

Next he earned credentials in chemistry and earth science. Sanda’s last credential is for math.

“I have this problem. I keep forgetting that ‘no’ and ‘problem’ are two separate words,” Sanda said. “So when someone asks me to do something, I just say ‘no problem.’”

Besides calculus, Sanda said he’s practically able to teach anything to do with math and science.

“I’m all over the place!” Sanda said.
Having settled on geometry and chemistry at SCHS, Sanda is excited to be a Bruin.

“[SCHS] has a very good reputation of supporting its staff,” Sanda said.

He believes SCHS is a very good place to teach and enjoys working here so far.

Before SCHS, Sanda had taught summer school, was a tutor and had even instructed people earning a high school diploma.

Sanda explained that most of these people were convicts whose parole officers convinced them to study again.

“Makes for a very interesting student body,” Sanda said. “[But] you can’t teach someone who doesn’t want to learn.”