Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Los Angeles Times

    A car-less math teacher commutes four hours. Surprise! Look what his students gave him

    by Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times Aug 27, 2022 4 minutes
    Student Shimmi Jotkowitz, 17, hugs his teacher Julio Castro, outside YULA Boys High School on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022, in Los Angeles, CA. Students at YULA Boys High School, a private Jewish school on the Westside, have raised $30,000 to buy a MAZDA 3 GT for their beloved teacher who currently commutes to work by bus and scooter.

    LOS ANGELES — Math teacher Julio Castro thought he was late to the party when he walked in near the end of a faculty-appreciation assembly at YULA Boys High School. He wished he could have dropped his name into the raffle box.

    But the entire event was a charade set up to honor him by surprise — beginning with video testimonials, a procession through confetti cannons and a tunnel of students with arms stretched overhead. And the finale: The gift of a certified pre-owned Mazda 3 hatchback to ease the tortuous commute of a beloved teacher.

    Castro lives in the Santa Clarita Valley and commutes about four hours a day by scooter and bus to get to the Westside school,

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from Los Angeles Times

    Los Angeles Times2 min read
    Dolly Parton Pays Tribute To Dabney Coleman: '9 To 5' Co-star Was A 'Dear Friend'
    Dolly Parton is mourning her co-star and longtime friend Dabney Coleman. "Dabney was a great actor and became a dear friend," the country music star wrote on Instagram. "He taught me so much when I was doing my first movie, 9 to 5." The pair met whil
    Los Angeles Times5 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
    Commentary: Wait Times Go Down. Patient Satisfaction Goes Up. What’s The Matter With Letting Apps And AI Run The ER?
    My resident describes our next emergency room patient — a 32-year-old female with severe, crampy mid-abdominal pain, vomiting and occasional loose stools. The symptoms have been present for nearly a week, and there is tenderness to both sides of the
    Los Angeles Times3 min readInternational Relations
    Commentary: World Community Needs To Put 2-state Facts On The Ground And Give Palestinians Hope
    Seven months into the man-made disaster in Gaza, very little is being done to deal with the sense of helplessness and fury that Palestinians are feeling. International efforts to end the war in Gaza, and to ensure a hostage-prisoner exchange, continu

    Related Books & Audiobooks