Mrs. Bebout is back at Harding, this time as an assistant principal.
She has been in education for 47 years. During those 47 years, she taught elementary for 5 years, English and math at Taft Middle School for 13 years, and an intervention specialist for 18 years. She attended Bowling Green State University.
When asked why she wanted to become an educator, Mrs. Bebout said in high school she went to an evening activity for students to help students figure out what they wanted to do as an adult, and that first night of being there she knew right then that she wanted to go into education.
At Harding some of her favorite things are all the diversity and all the opportunities/activities to help kids find a place where they belong. Mrs. Bebout expressed that “You know people always say, ‘I would just always be an educator’ but I would because in education every day is different and you get so many times to start over as a teacher and as a kid every 9 weeks, every semester every year. We get to start over.” She said that watching kids find their way and to see them years later is so fulfilling.
The office Mrs. Bebout is in now is the same office she was in when Harding was first built back in the early 2000s. She voiced with a smile on her face that being back in her old office and here at Harding, “It’s like coming home.”
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