A Rangiora couple with a combined teaching career of 95 years say their recent decision to retire from the profession has been difficult. Howard and Lois Pettigrew say they have loved being teachers, but with recent changes both are now reluctant to recommend the profession as a career. Howard began his teaching career in Granity on the West Coast in 1976 after three years training at Christchurch Teachers College. After leaving the West Coast, he moved to Waimakariri to teach at Oxford District High School in its last year before it changed to an Area School. That role was followed by a temporary position at Clarkville School for a few years before he began his first permanent position, at Fernside School. Lois graduated from Christchurch Teachers College in 1981 and began her teaching career in Christchurch before heading to Fernside School where she met Howard.…