Badin’s Breetz in love with teaching
Badin High School science teacher Angela Breetz wasn’t planning to be a teacher. Then, she was thinking of getting out of teaching. Now, she can’t think of anything else she’d rather be doing.
“I really love my job,” said Breetz, a 2001 Badin grad now in her seventh year teaching at her alma mater. “I still want to walk through the doors every day. I hope that feeling continues for a very long time.”
Breetz, who is married with three children, started out as a dietetics major at Miami University … but found that it wasn’t what she expected. She gravitated toward teaching because she felt she would enjoy teaching the material – and has always had a love for the life sciences.
Now, as a Biology and Physiology teacher at Badin, she has found her mojo.
“The students are not just my students — now they’re like my kids,” Breetz said. “I have that emotional investment. Once you’re one of my kids, you’re always one of my kids.”
Breetz conceded that before coming to Badin, after teaching junior high science for eight years in an area public school district, various pending changes had undermined her passion. She had started looking for jobs outside of the teaching field — and then the Badin opportunity came to her attention.
“It was a place I’d had a wonderful experience as a student,” Breetz said. “I thought if it didn’t work out, maybe I’d look into another field. It’s worked out very well.”
Breetz loves the interaction with the students, helping them getting excited about learning and about growing up. She also loves the material. “I really get fired up about my subject matter,” she said. “And I love the continual learning aspect of science. That’s part of my passion, too.”
Breetz – a talented athlete who played in state championship games in both soccer and basketball at Badin — noted that, “There is truth in science. But it’s OK that some science information changes as we learn and explore more. But when study after study tells you something, you can’t discount it.”
She summed up her current teaching life by calling it “fun. It’s a lot of fun. And the fun outweighs the stress,” she said, laughing, “most of the time.”