Maria Cristina Tomimbang has taught middle school math for 22 years — 18 years in the Philippines and four years in Montana.
“It’s really such a blessing,” she says of her job in the Hardin Public Schools. “I love the community.”
Hardin, a town of 4,000 about an hour east of Billings and just off the Crow Indian Reservation, is a place that has had trouble attracting teachers.
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