I taught in the public school system for 10 years. I majored in special education, with a specialty in behavioral studies and science. Throughout my career, I have taught all subjects in self-contained behavior classrooms, resource classrooms, and high school mathematics classrooms. Year after year, I kept questioning why the schools were forcing so many obscure topics on the students; I called them “filler topics”. Finally, I had enough of the curriculum and politics in the schools, and decided to leave the public school system for good! It has been such a relief and I’m thrilled to have this opportunity to share my knowledge with the families of Lonestar Homeschool Academy, and help them grow into the people they choose to be; not what the school system wants them to be.