Going Back

With another K-M High School graduation a few days away I wonder how many of you would like to go back and relive your senior year. For myself, I would not want to go back and do it all over again. There are a few high school events I might like to do over again, but not live it all over again.

I don't even feel much like a K-M graduate when walking the halls because so much has changed. The building is more than double the size of what it was when I graduated in 1973.

All of the teaching staff I had are gone. Well, at least all but one. Even the athletic facilities have changed considerably. Imagine one gymnasium, no track and no soccer fields.

We had a library. It was not a media center.

We had home economics and now they have FACS (Family and Consumer Sciences).

We had a gymnasium and now they have an all-purpose room. (I think that name change came to make a bond referendum more salable to the public)

We had art and now they refer to it as art education.

We had reading with our classroom teacher. Now they have a reading specialist.

In my day a Dean of Students was at the college level only.

Industrial arts is now industrial technology.

A social worker was an employee at the courthouse in Mantorville.

We had business math, but not business education.

We had an athletic director. Now we have the activities director.

We are talking 37 years ago folks. I wonder what the changes will be in another 37 years. Will math still be math and science be science?

I figure we can say one thing has not changed since I graduated. A high school diploma is still every bit as important today as it was back then. So I do have some connection with the 2010 K-M graduates. Good luck to you all.