Rachel Wills

Rachel Wills, a sixteen year old going to Hidden Valley High School, has a very big family, has a job, and still manages to do well in school and has ambitions to go college. Wills lives with her father, step mother, step sister, half-sister, and other times lives with her step father, mother, half-sister, and her step brother. When asked about her plans for college Wills said, “… Liberty Maybe… I am interested in Psychology, speech therapy, physical therapy, and stuff like that. I like working with people.”

Growing up Wills went to three different schools. From kindergarten to sixth she went to Faith Christian. She was homeschooled in 7^th grade and transferred to Hidden valley Middle school. “It was hard transitioning from homeschooling to a public school because all of the kids had known each other from elementary school and already had formed their cliques,” recalls Wills, of making brand new friends. She said that she didn’t realize how much of an impact socializing has on your life before homeschooling, and how she prefers public schooling over homeschooling.      

Her most memorable moment growing up was when her step father proposed to her mother on a cruise in the Bahamas when she was around five or six. When asked about her future plans, Wills described, “I want to have finished college, have a steady job, with a good income, and maybe a kid.”