Angela Curry is a 36-year-old teacher at West Oaks Elementary school in Orlando, Florida. In September, she joined more than 100 other teachers to express their outrage at the Orange County School Board for the slow pace of raise negotiations for teachers. When she stepped to the microphone for her chance to speak out, she was asked to state her name and address for the record. Not expecting the question, she broke down and admitted that despite making $36,000 a year,
she's been homeless with her two children since 2011.
Curry says to understand what happened you need to go back a few years. The 36-year-old is the product of two high school drop-outs. However, Curry insists the Orange County School District saved her.
"I'm that child that's from teenage parents," Curry says. "[I] saw them on drugs, saw them on pretty much anything you could think of. My third grade teacher actually got me to talk in class."
Curry earned an education degree from the University of Central Florida. She then got her dream job, met her dream man, started a family and even split a house she bought with a friend.
But it began to unravel 4 and 1/2 years later.
Curry says her boyfriend left her with a toddler, Kaden, and pregnant with Brielle. She couldn't keep up with the house payments.
"October of 2011 is when she gave me my eviction papers," Curry says.
After taxes, childcare, and health insurance, she simply didn't doesn't make enough for a home of their own. Watch Angela Curry's very personal story
here.