Wow, I hadn't realized that it's been nearly a month since my last post. You know what they say about time flying...
Anyway, the dread start of the school year made its annual appearance on Monday, ending my idyllic respite and forcing me to do something to earn my paycheck. Its somewhat exciting, considering that I'm teaching a brand-new class for which I managed to get approval.
How many high schools can say they have a firefighting class? Not many, less that ten in the whole state of Texas, and we're one of them. Unfortunately, many of the students want to treat it like just another elective: a blow-off class that they don't have to take seriously.
They couldn't be more wrong.
I'm going into it with the mind-set that every one of them will one day use this class to be a firefighter, either career or volunteer. Suddenly, the class becomes serious... deadly serious. In firefighting, those things that you don't learn can one day get you killed or seriously injured. I've expressed that to the students, very forcefully, in fact. We'll see how many drop now that they know how it's really going to be...
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My guess would be... none.
I never really took any srew off classes... I took all of classes seriously, whether the teacher actually did anything with us on most days or not was NOT my fault!!! LMAO Either way, some of my best classes were the ones where the teachers were the most serious.
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