Teacher Spotlight: Morgan Parido

By Evie Fordham

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           Mrs. Parido and her husband

Middle School English and Writing teacher Morgan Parido fell in love with reading at a young age.

“From the time I was a little girl, I loved getting books for Christmas,” she recounted.

Mrs. Parido now shares her passion for reading with seventh graders.

“I love the excitement the children have when they finally find a book that connects with them,” she said, “They will come to class talking a mile a minute about something exciting that happened in the last chapter, and I just sit back and smile.”

Mrs. Parido views teaching as an opportunity to influence her students for good.

“Teachers have a chance to be a steady, consistent impact in a child’s life at a time in history when children so often have nothing in which they can consistently trust,” she explained.

One of the lessons she stresses most in the classroom is understanding authors’ biases.

“If the author is subtly hinting at an unbiblical message, I want my students to catch that underlying message,” she said, “The world will not yell at my students, ‘I am trying to deceive you.’ I want my seventh graders to know when they are being taught something that is false.”

Mrs. Parido received her B.A. in Elementary Education and Bible from Appalachian Bible College. When she is not discussing a plot twist or the rules of grammar with her students, she enjoys playing and watching basketball as well as going on hikes with her husband. Although this is only her first year teaching at Wake Christian, Mrs. Parido is already making memories.

“My favorite memory from this year has been reading Nightmare Academy by Frank Peretti to my honors students,” she said, “They became attached to one of the minor characters to such a ridiculous extent that they would talk about her, talk like her, and defend her all day. It made me smile to see them enjoy a book so much.”

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