100-year-old school monitor in Oceanside retires

A 100-year old school monitor in Oceanside has finally retired.

News 12 Staff

Sep 22, 2020, 12:28 AM

Updated 1,576 days ago

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A 100-year old school monitor in Oceanside has finally retired.
Yolanda Imbriano started as a lunch monitor for the Oceanside school district back in 1965, when she made $1.25 an hour.
She later became bus monitor and would wake up at 5 a.m. to ride with the students. But this year, the doctor advised her not to return back to work due to the risk she could face working with children during the pandemic.
"Sometimes they would come up on the bus crying, they didn't want to go to school. And I'd talk to them and we'd sing and I'd tell them stories and they'd laugh and that was it. But that is what I miss," she says.
Imbriano says she'll be spending her free time sewing, baking and spending time with her 11 grandchildren.