The 50-year-old West Valley City resident said even his college lab professor told him,"You’re just not good at this," referring to his laboratory and teaching skills.
For the last 24 years, Pevzner has been a science teacher at the school; his first teaching job after leaving the Peace Corps. “When you are hungry you’re preoccupied thinking, ‘Where I'm going to eat?’” Pevzner said. “Who cares about science or math or English; if your brain is telling you, ‘I want something, I want something.’ I know when I'm hungry I don't focus, so I'm sure it's worse for the kid who doesn't know how to process when is the next time I’m going to eat.
“He goes above and beyond,” Fonguh said. “He connects with his students very well. And you talk about giving snacks. He does a lot more than that. He is an advocate for those students and because of that, the students, they like him, they want to be in his class and they're doing good in his classes. You can see the results.Pevzner shies away from taking any credit.