September 2011
2 posts
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My wife runs a small business. I teach at a small independent school. If we wanted to have medical insurance for our whole family, it would cost me 75% of my paycheck. My salary is too high for our two daughters to be covered by Hoosier Healthwise.
Medical Insurance is not affordable for us. So, we are currently uninsured. Socioeconomically, we are considered a middle class family. Yet we...
How Do My Children Measure Up?
For the last four years, I have had the opportunity to work in an urban public school. My two children were students in this school as well. Each year, the pressure on myself as a teacher to increase my student’s ISTEP test scores, increased. While I knew my students, as well as my two children, were more than a test score, I worked hard to make sure we covered as many state standards as...