My Mom: An Interview With A Special Education Teacher

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For this project I chose to interview my mom. My mother's road to financial independence weekend when she started her first job while attending college. After getting her bachelor's she moved on the graduate program in later started her first teaching position at the age of 22. She believes that she was truly financially independent after she got married and moved out of her parents home finish college and started a career. As a special education teacher she works with students who have verbal, physical, and, mental disabilities over the past couple years she has been working with students in kindergarten but she has also taught special-needs preschool students. As an adult challenges do not disappear they take on a different form bike trying

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