Longest career as a teacher

Medarda de Jesus Leon de Uzcategui (b. June 8, 1899), alias La Maestra Chucha, taught in Caracas, Venezuela for 87 years from 1911 to 1998.

In 1911, at the age of 12, she and her two sisters set up a school there which they named Modelo de Aplicacion. Since marrying in 1942, she ran her own school, which she called the Escuela Uzcategui, from her home in Caracas. The most recent reports confirmed that she still taught in 1998, with a teaching career spanning 87 years. Medarda de Jesus Leon de Uzcategui is reported to have died in 2002