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    Why I’m Not Leaving Education to Become a Blogger

    I see it all the time.  Ad after ad advertising blogging as an escape from the chain of the 9 to 5 job.  It is amazing to me how many of these ads refer to teaching as the job they wanted to flee. How could they teach when they really didn’t enjoy it?  It is hard for me to imagine.  Now, I have been writing since I was a young girl.  Stacks of journals holding my deepest secrets are proof it is truly a passion of mine, but one thing I have never wanted to escape is teaching.  The days spent learning with teenagers is not a hindrance but an…

  • Christian Living

    Why We Public School: A Christian Perspective

    I couldn’t be a Christian parent in 2020 without being a part of the eternal discussion of how to school our children. Many of our believing friends home school or private school, and with COVID, many more are opting out of public education for many valid reasons. As a public school teacher and believer, I thought I had heard all of the sides of the debate in their entirety until recently when a well-known Christian organization published a post in favor of Protestant schools over all others, especially public school. The contents of the post were moralistic in nature, focusing on purely behavioral and marital statistics rather than the gospel,…