The Teacher Who Wouldn't Stay Quiet

Mark Borden spent thirty-one years as a high school science teacher in the Coachella Valley, California. He founded and ran the Black Student Union for nine years, filed over one hundred abuse reports, and was formally disciplined for teaching suicide prevention during health education week.

He proposed a ten-dollar door lock to protect students from a school shooter and was laughed at. He solved a gate problem in two days that the administration had been unable to close for eight years. He stayed through all of it because the students deserved someone who would.

He is also a licensed real estate broker, a business owner, a former semi-professional baseball player, and a traveler to ninety-nine countries on all seven continents — regularly broadcasting live to his students from the Amazon, Antarctica, Thailand, and beyond.

He retired in 2024. He wrote four books. He did not retire quietly.