Learn about Baker Charter Schools through the eyes of teachers, principals, and families. Baker Charter Schools are online, public charter schools in Oregon.
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Have you ever experienced the feeling of time standing still? I have, and it was the most terrifying moment of my life. Here’s my story.
It was a hot July day in the summer of 18. My wife, Rachel, and I were catching up on yard work in our new house. We are both teachers and so each July begins the countdown to the first day of school. We had no idea our warm relaxing work day was about to come to an end…
I heard about Baker as an awkward 17-year-old in the middle of an awkward move to Oregon in the middle of my junior year. Baker gave me a path to follow—and, more importantly, breathing space where I didn’t have to panic about getting into the perfect four-year program right away…
“Why would I read a book while I have such a busy life to live? I don’t need books; my life is a living book,” said the man. I recall this conversation vividly as it initially provoked quite a reaction within me as a college student. As a student of literature, I wanted to defend the value of novels to a professional man who seemed intent on sinking the library’s fiction section into the ocean of irrelevance…
My 6th-grade child piped up one day and said “I want to go to Baker,” meaning Baker Charter School that his longtime school friend enrolled in. I, as a busy working mother of two active teenagers, responded with, “No, we are not going to homeschool.” As the year passed, and another year began again, my son said, “I want to go to Baker.” And I responded again with…
