Falcon Flashback: Ms. Tracy Chadbourne

One of CB’S most popular teachers, Ms. Chadbourne gave the Talon some insight on what she was like during high school.

Ms. Tracy Chadbourne has helped many students through the struggles of Spanish class, while providing them with helpful advice about life. She is nice, attentive to the needs of her students, and absolutely hilarious.  What was this young and vivacious teacher like during her adolescent years?

It is essential to know Ms. Chadbourne attended 13 different schools and grew up in many different places. Ms. Chadbourne describes her teenage self as a nerdy kid who loved music.

“I was into rockin’ music, I was a rocker” she exclaims.

Her high school years consisted of going to school, going to work after school, and studying. However, she did participate in many interesting clubs such as Spanish club and the Astra club.

“Chad”, as she is sometimes referred to, also enjoyed spending her free time playing volleyball. Another interesting fact about the energetic teacher is that she twirled the flag in her high school marching band.

“I was definitely awesome,” she humbly stated.

Ms.Chadbourne started learning Spanish in high school, but none of her teachers lived up to her current teaching standards. She was not able to master the language until her later years.

“I went to college and started learning it there,” Chadbourne tells the Talon. “Then I just studied every day, worked my butt off and then I was fluent — boom, magic!”

When asked why she became a teacher, the cheery educator says, “I don’t know why –I just always knew [that it was] what I wanted to do.”

One experience Ms. Chadbourne enjoyed during her time at Christian Brothers was teaching at the same school her daughter, Cassie Moore ’11, attended.

“I liked it because she was always there and I could watch her…Awkward!”

Having been a teenager herself once, Ms. Chadbourne offers up some advice for all students.

“Listen to your elders,” she said wisely. “Teenagers don’t listen, but these people have already lived through it so when they tell you something it comes from experience — so you can save yourself ten years of pain and suffering if you just listen to older people’s advice.”