Ms. Christine Anderson

Written by Hannah Shelton

Government teacher and cheer coach Miss Christine Anderson is going on her second year at Bishop Kelley High School. She was influenced by a “combination of different teachers” that she had. When she was a student. Besides teaching, she loves using her musical talents, and spending time with her fiancée and family.

“ I feel like I’m pretty passionate about what I teach.”

Teaching government and keeping up with the latest political news is one of her biggest passions. She describes herself as “ a political news junkie” and would have loved to be a news correspondent if she wasn’t a teacher.

Her students love her class and the way she makes government so interesting.

“ I only took a quarter of her class but I loved the class and her,” junior Claire Shelton said.

Her class involves a lot of discussion time about what is going on in the U.S. and what the students agree and disagree on. She is always open to hear everyone’s opinions even if she might not agree with it.

Aside from teaching government, Anderson coaches the cheer squad.

“I’m never home before 9 p.m., but it’s because I’m not willing to just not do anything,” she said.

“ She is really nice and is always really supportive whenever we are doing routines and cheers,” cheerleader Royce Parker said.

Anderson was a cheerleader most of her high school career, but said she didn’t want to cheer in college because she couldn’t tumble.

In her free time, Anderson loves to play the piano and teach herself new pieces.

“ I actually started playing [piano] when I was four,” Anderson said. “I had to sit in a booster seat to reach the keys.”

She is very passionate about her music.

“I read music before I read books.”

Anderson also loves movies and books. She decribes her self as having “a broad spectrum” when it comes to movies. She likes every thing from Ferris Buller’s Day Off to The Lord of the Ring’s trilogy.

Two months ago on her birthday, she got the surprise of her life and possibly the best birthday present ever. Her fiancée proposed.

“ The happiest day of my life now was probably when I got engaged.”

They met while she was in grad school, working at a fitness center downtown.

“ I actually worked in the gym as a trainer and he is an accountant who worked for the corporate office, so he would come in everyday and pick up the deposit or get the finance report or whatever so we just started talking.”

They plan to wed in September of this year.

She fits perfectly within the BK community and loves what she does loves.

“I would love for people to remember me as somebody who again was a good friend, a good listener, obviously a good teacher, just an overall good person. Just wanted to be active and involved in the community, a good humanitarian, so obviously fondly. But all those kind of specific things,” Anderson said.