IT TOOK ME 5 YEARS OF TEACHING TO O TEACH ART...THERE WERE NO ART PROGRAMS ANYWHERE IN THIS REGION...SO YES AS MANY OF YOU HAVE FOUND OUT I TAUGHT FIFTH..SEVENTH AND EIGHT GRADES EVERYTHING YOU GOT EM YOU KEEP EM ALL DAY BUT FINALLY THE FEDS..CAME UP WITH THE TITLE THREE PROGRAM....YOU GOT AN ART TEACHER BUT YOU GOT OTHER MONIES IF YOU STARTED THE PROGRAM SO I FIRST STARTED TEACHING WITH PRINCIPALS THAT DIDNT WANT ME IN THE FIRST PLACE..I TAUGHT AT THREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS MILES APART AND WAS REWARDED BY BEING ABLE TO TEACH ONE HIGH SCHOOLCLASS IN THE BAND ROOM....SO I HAD MY FOOT IN THE DOOR AND WE WERE OFF AND RUNNING..THE NEXT YEAR AGAIN USING FEDERAL FUNDING THEY ROOFED OVER THE AREA BETWEEN THE BAND ROOM AND THE GYM AND THAT WAS THE ART ROOM...NEVIN JONES WAS INTERESTED BY THAT TIME..SO MY FATE WAS SEALED... GIVE ART TO THOSE WHO ARE INTERESTED AND FINISH OUT THE CLASS WITH HOODLUMS FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO NEED TO PASS AND PEOPLE YOU JUST CANT FIND ANY OTHER PLACE FOR....I DIDNT CARE..I HAD BEEN MOST OF THOSE THINGS SO I KNEW HOW TO WORK WITH THEM OL PHIL WHO TRANSFERED WHEN THEY SHUT DOWN JOHNSON..BECAME MY FIRST ART ROOM MAFIA AND RIGHT HAND..THE OTHER TEACHERS COULD NOT KEEP OL SLIPPERY PHIL IN CLASS SO THEY KNEW WHERE HE WAS I SENT PHIL ALL OVER FLOYD COUNTY SCROUNGING ART STUFF DISCARDED PAINTS FROM THE PAINT STORES PAPER FROM THE PAPERMILLS HOT DOGS AND BARBEQUE SANDWICHES FROM TROYS... AND MY CLASSES BEGAN TO TURN OUT ART WORK THEY LIKED IT I LIKED IT..OUR MOTTO BE VISEABLE AND WE WERE..IT WAS FUN AND I LOVED IT....THE HAWK FLIES THE RAIN HAS LET UP..SO THE GREENIES ARE MARCHING ON RIVERSTREET...LOVE TO ALL YOU...HOT DOGS WITH CHILI AND CHEESE FOR LUNCH LOVE BILL
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:08:08 +0000