After more than four decades, Wanda Chism retires from education — again
Wanda Chism taught 16 years at Tara Oaks Elementary after 15 years at Collierville Elementary. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Wanda Chism nearly wasn’t on the Collierville school board, but a conversation with her daughter pushed her to run two days before the qualifying deadline.
Memphis City Schools had surrendered its charter. She was substitute teaching after retiring in 2011 from three decades of elementary teaching. Many begged her to run for school board, but a conversation with her daughter gave her the final nudge.
“If you don’t do it, you are not allowed to speak to me about anything (with which) you do not agree with the school system,” Chism, now 82, recalled her daughter saying. “Well, you know me. I talk too much.”
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Abigail Warren
Abigail Warren is an award-winning reporter and covers Collierville and Germantown for The Daily Memphian. She was raised in the Memphis suburbs, attended Westminster Academy and studied journalism at the University of Memphis. She has been with The Daily Memphian since 2018.
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