Hunter Alexander calls his decision to leave his teaching job in Oklahoma for one in Northwest Arkansas the toughest he’s had to make in his career.
Alexander grew up in Oklahoma and, after graduating from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, moved back to his home state so he and his wife could be close to family.
He worked for Union Public Schools in the Tulsa area as an art teacher and tennis coach for four years. His wife worked as an X-ray technician.
After the couple had a child in fall 2015, they agreed his wife should stay at home with the baby. Alexander, however, wasn’t making enough to support all three of them.
“I didn’t want to leave,” he said. “It just got to the point, for my wife and I to do what was best for my family, that was a decision that had to be made.