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When I began teaching in the Oklahoma public education
system, I was finishing my thesis, taking coursework to get my Alternative Certification
and teaching part time at Deer Creek Public Schools outside Edmond. My daughter
(I was a single mother at the time) and I lived on about $12K that year after
taxes. It wasn’t easy, but my mother had been a public school English teacher for
decades, my grandfather had been a law professor and my father was beginning
his career as a Journalism professor. Not only is teaching a career path in my
family, but I really enjoyed it, and as a TA in the Biology Department at the
University of Central Oklahoma, I regularly had overflowing sessions for my Microbiology study review, so
I conceived I might be ok at it.
