Proving I will listen listen to pretty much any type music, I am listening to Estonian "Pop Music" this morning.....Yeah, I have an eclectic taste in music.
This morning I get up for 'Morning Prayer' felt really good afterward, and I do my normal routine....Check the weather, check the overnight news, put on some music, and check Facebook, and often FB stops me dead in my tracks.
I see that a former student is talking about how their child has a 100 in their Economics's Class. But the child is going to school in Hardin County. I don't want to know what is going on in Hardin County educational or governmental authorities.....
And that the class was nothing like Gov/Eco back in the day, with my teaching....
Education is so different than when I was teaching, and I have said this many times before, I could not teach in 2026.
I could not be the Mr. Thomas you had when I was teaching school. I seriously would be sent home at about 9am.
They'd have me explaining why I "bled like a stuck pig" on your essays......Why I put you in the hallway....Why we had a " Cuss Porch."
Heck, I couldn't have the mess and bologna we had going on in Gov/Eco class. I know I often picked and teased in classes, and I did it to one student so much I stopped. I better quit I told myself......About a week after I stopped she came by after class and asked, " Mr. Thomas are you mad at me?"
I'd have to be " Nice." ( I'll look in Webster's and see what the term " Nice" means.....)
No, the kids, the parents, society has changed dramatically since I retired. It is part of the reason why I do not hardly leave the house anymore. I don't have to "put up with it" anymore, so I just stay away.
It's like, at some point I will give up on Buna Schools, declare it an officially a " Lost Cause" and try and not look back.
But not yet. ( At some point I will decide it's so FUBAR I need to just stop for my own sanity. )
I could just about see what would happen when today's Seniors found out I liked tobacco, alcohol, firearms.....Again, they'd let me go in 2026.
No, since the COVID fiasco, the world changed. And don't tell me it hasn't. And it has messed up more kids than we want to admit, and education, good or bad, has adjusted to the kids in 2026. And perhaps not in a good way.
Old Kerry Don, while he sometimes misses it, couldn't do it today.....BTW- The lectures this week would be for Government class would be " British Backgrounds."
