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Old School About New School

by cjohnson

school being builtEach morning on the bus part of my journey to work, for the last several months I pass a building site. A hairdresser I was speaking to on the bus one morning told me that it was a school being constructed, and ever since I always look to see how it is coming along. It’s huge. I took some pictures of it for you to see. Please excuse the reflections from the bus windows.

school being builtIt fills me with hope somehow, to see a new school being built. I don’t know why, really, but it does. I like to imagine the children going about their lives getting their education in its classrooms, having fun while doing it. I like to imagine them having fun in the playground areas, growing strong in mind and body.

school being builtIn what will seem like no time at all, it will be my turn to help guide some of them on their way, since maybe some will come to to my classroom, and I’ll teach them Physics. Yeah…. they are a big part of the future. (I’m not going to break into song at this point, don’t worry.)

Sounds really cheesy, I know. Call me old-fashioned. I don’t mind.

-cvj

(Of course, someone’s going to write in and tell me that it’s actually going to be a Bank, or another bloody car dealer. But I’m off to that bar I mentioned before you can say that and ruin my evening….!)

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January 20th, 2006 9:53 PM
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7 Responses to “Old School About New School”

  1. 1.   Pyracantha Says:
    January 21st, 2006 at 12:02 am

    In your text:

    “…children going about their lives, getting their education in (it’s) classrooms…”

    that’s ITS, no apostrophe.

  2. 2.   Sakura-chan Says:
    January 21st, 2006 at 12:22 am

    In your text:

    “…children going about their lives, getting their education in (it’s) classrooms…”

    that’s ITS, no apostrophe.

    phewwwww. *breathes a sigh of relief* The Grammar Nazis were about to do poor Cliff in, but you saved him. =)

  3. 3.   Clifford Says:
    January 21st, 2006 at 4:01 am

    Thanks. Typed in haste. Corrected.

    -cvj

  4. 4.   andrew Says:
    January 21st, 2006 at 7:58 am

    While big schools are impressive and ya know your tax dollars at work and all they’re actually not that effective. Really smaller schools with better communication between staff and students work out a lot better. All said though this one might be designed on such a premise, I know newer schools are being built off the 150 principle with each set of students assigned to a certian prt of the school with amenities like lounges and libraries and computers etc. Who designed this thing anyway?

  5. 5.   citrine Says:
    January 23rd, 2006 at 10:33 am

    Clifford, maybe you’ll get to meet with the students when they are young and impressionable, even before they get to college, when the school invites you as a guest speaker. Then you can go in looking like a “normal person”, not in a white lab coat (which, as a theorist you don’t wear anyways, right?) and tell the kids that not all scientists are scary Frankensteins.

  6. 6.   Clifford Says:
    January 23rd, 2006 at 1:14 pm

    citriine…yes, that would be great.

    (However, I’m thinking of getting a white lab coat. It is currently really annoying getting chalkdust all over my bike, my black bag, and/or my dark blue jacket, after class….with a white lab coat I can just dust off my hands and nothing will show…then off the to the next meeting!)

    -cvj

  7. 7.   Robert keener Says:
    January 26th, 2006 at 7:58 am

    Your mom is white





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