Virginia Persoon

Mrs. Persoon is a Santa Barbara native who attended St. Raphael’s School and Bishop Diego High School. She attended San Jose State University where she received her BA in History and earned her Multiple Subject Teaching Credential. After finishing school, she moved back to the area and worked in several local schools before taking the second grade position at Mount Carmel. She taught the second graders for 7 1/2 years before leaving to have her two sons. She was happy to return to Mount Carmel as 5th grade teacher for three years and then serving as our Resource teacher and assistant in Kindergarten.