I start my 39th year as an educator today. Hopefully, because of Send Out Cards, it will be my last. for several years, I have thought about making a diary of my last year and expressing my thoughts about how education and society and I have changed over the years. Mike Jones of Tucson Realty was kind enough to share Active Rain with Sally and me so now I can do my blog and possibly help my business as well. What a nice combination. Technology is one big change I will talk about in the coming months.
Forty years ago this month, I began my educational career as a student teacher in Wenatchee, Washington. I was a senior at Central Washington State College. This was before it became a university and was called CWCS or "Sweesee". I majored in Eduction with an emphasis on History and Political Science. How ironic that I was a poly sci major. I was living in one of the most turbulent years of U.S. History - 1968 - and I was totally not involved. I had a mission to get my degree, find a job and teach and coach. What was happening in Vietnam, the Miami and Chicago conventions, Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinations, Kent State, the inner city riots and a whole myriad of other social and international issues was like another world to me. It was like I was watching history being made, but it was something on television and really had nothing to do with me. I have always felt kind of guilty for that. Could I have done more? Should I have done more?
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