Overcoming All Odds Three

<p><strong>In</strong> this third volume I will share problems I faced as a beginning teacher with parents administrators fellow faculty staff competitor coaches faculty union issues academic senate challenges and how both my students and I overcame minor and major obstacles that certainly changed our lives. Some of the problems were academic some financial and some religious in nature.</p><p></p><p><strong>At</strong> one point I found myself teaching at a private religious institution combining academic and church-related issues. My own public education had prepared me for the challenges found there but I was left doubting myself in certain aspects unique to private schooling and the religious aspects of new rules regulations and curricula acceptable in that type of school.</p><p></p><p><strong>It</strong> is a story about my teaching a subject matter but how they taught me about life. It is about using what one experiences as a means of learning about life.</p>