Laura's Early Childhood

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Most students would try to go into college right after high school, as Laura tried to. After graduating high school in the summer of 1967, she immediately started school at California State
University San Bernardino; however, she dropped out after two quarters. Thirteen years later,
Laura found herself back in the area to continue her education. Laura was majoring in English, but was unable to finish her degree at a physical school. However, the Air Force was directly associated with the University of Maryland, an online education system on most Air Force Bases that the United States hosted, including those in other countries. She started attending the
University of Maryland in 1983, the year her family moved to England. With all the classes …show more content…

She saw first hand the locations where numerous bible stories occurred, as well as participated in local activities. She road a camel for the first time, and traveled down the Nile River. All of this history she had read about and learned, became alive. Laura had been working on some of the Air Bases as a teacher in the ROP programs, and she had this feeling that she was born to be a teacher. ROP is the Regional Occupation Programs which help military wives adapt to new areas. She taught them about all the little tips and tricks she learned along the way: from her time in Italy to her time in England. Seeing herself teaching in this atmosphere, and how much she enjoyed it, she knew teaching was her calling in life. Those classes in England turned everything around for Laura. She finally got enough credits after all her history classes in England to receive her degree. Laura was 36 years old when she received her degree certificate in the mail. Bob had been transferred one last time to George
Air Force Base in Victorville, California, and Laura got to share her success in England with her parents. “See mom, I did it” Laura proudly told her mom showing off her new degree. This …show more content…

Not too long after this, Laura changed schools yet again to St. Margaret Mary Catholic School, where she spent three years. Her first twelve years of teaching were all spent teaching 6th, 7th, and 8th grade English and History. Laura found her final teaching job at the Academy for Academic Excellence in Apple
Valley, California. Also known as the “Lewis Center,” the Academy for Academic Excellence was mostly a homeschooled organization, where students had to attend class once or twice a week. There was an opening for an eighth grade history teacher in 2001. That was the job that caught Laura’s attention. Laura Doxey was interviewed by Mr. Jeff Johnson and Mr. Gordon
Soholt for the job. Scared to death, Laura had no idea that she would soon influence thousands as a new member of the Academy for Academic Excellence, for she was hired. Laura was scared to death, but she earned the job that would influence the lives of over a thousand students. Just a year after being hired, in 2002, Laura started a tradition that’s still occurring in the school today: the 8th grade field trip to Washington D.C. This one trip specifically showed just how knowledgeable Laura was about those “personable stories of history” Professor

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