By: Leslie Lopez
Mr. Quinto is a teacher here at Eisenhower, and teaches U.S. History, AP Human Geography, and Academic Decathlon. He grew up here in Rialto, and also attended and graduated from Eisenhower in 1999. During his high school years, he took an advanced cooking class, and cooked for the teachers every Thursday. He also wrote an article for the Eagles Eye, and joined a car club where they’d go to car races in Pomona. Later, he enrolled at Chaffey College and got his bachelor’s degree at Cal State University Monterey Bay. Mr. Quinto says college gave him a different perspective on the world and gave him the freedom to take classes he took great interest in. Down the line, Mr. Quinto received his teaching credential at the University of California in Riverside. Mr. Quinto has been teaching for 13 years now, 5 of which he’s been teaching here at Eisenhower.
Mr. Quinto was inspired to become a teacher when he was in elementary school. He had a really fantastic teacher who inspired him. Mr. Quinto chose to teach U.S. History because it was his favorite subject in school and chose to teach AP Human Geography because he was interested in the way people lived, and how they were so similar yet so different. Academic Decathlon was chosen because he enjoys challenging and mentoring students to compete at a college level. Before becoming a teacher, Mr. Quinto had thought about becoming an FBI agent, but chose not to due to the investigations being mostly about fraud and found that boring. He said being a teacher had always been in the back of his mind, and then one day pursued it.
Mr. Quinto says the best part about his job is seeing students succeed and understand the importance of the subject being taught. He says the worst part about his job is that there is never enough time to get through all the material. He finds that very frustrating. Quinto says that if he could change anything, he would change the concept of education where students could have a greater opportunity to earn awards for skills beneficial to them like career and technology classes. A final thought he’d like to leave his students is “Actual learning is something that can’t be bought, it’s not a store-bought product, it is something that needs effort and motivation, so keep it up.”
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