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Stories about the staff retirements within Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. don’t usually attract a lot of attention.

The list that we run in the newspaper around this time of year is something of a tradition. Come the end of the term, teachers, administrators and support personnel turn in letters of intent to retire.

It’s an expected custom. Each year a small group, for a variety of reasons, elects to call it quits. Most have reached an age at which people think in terms of getting out of the workforce. A few have simply had it. An even smaller number have recognized (or had pointed out to them) that the time had come.

Later in the summer, The Republic will publish a list of new hires, the ones selected to step into the slots made vacant by the retirements.

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