Marietta City Schools Honors Retiring Educators and Staff

MARIETTA, Ga. – Marietta City Schools celebrated the educators, leaders, and staff members closing out their careers this year during the district's annual retirement luncheon on Friday, May 8.

Held at Mac's Chop House in downtown Marietta, the event brought retirees together with their principals and supervisors, members of the Board, district sponsors, and cabinet leadership. Each retiree was recognized individually — name, years of service, and what comes next — and presented with a commemorative plaque by the colleague who knew their work best.

Many educators brought decades of experience to Marietta City Schools, with some dedicating more than 40 years to Georgia public education, families, and students. This group of retirees includes classroom teachers, school leaders, counselors, paraprofessionals, and operations staff whose careers have shaped generations of MCS graduates.

"Every Marietta City Schools graduate is the product of people who showed up, teachers, principals, bus drivers, paraprofessionals, counselors, and made this district feel like home," said Superintendent Grant Rivera. "Today, we thanked a group of those people. We are a better district because of them."

The luncheon has become a signature spring tradition for Marietta City Schools, marking the close of another school year and the careers of the educators who built it.