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Nearly 50 years after being hired as school’s only Black teacher, JD Sweet retires

Nearly 50 years after being hired as school’s only Black teacher, JD Sweet retires

After over 47 years in the classroom, JD Sweet has retired. Tuesday was Sweet’s last day as a teacher at Olympic High School, where he has taught social studies for the past three years. For three decades before Olympic High, he taught at Central Kitsap High School. Being the only Black teacher at the school when…

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