accidental feminist

Homecoming! October 12, 2007

It’s weird teaching high school sometimes. How can I explain? Well, you know all of those awkward, strange, beautiful, and painful moments you experienced between the ages of 14-18? Imagine having to vicariously relive them every year of your life. Having to awkwardly feign school spirit, having to watch as teenage relationships bud and blossom, then crash and burn before your eyes, all hindged on who gets asked to a 3-hour dance in the gym? And, to make it all the more ironic, you teach at a school that is in the same conference as the one where John Hughes went to school. So not only are you reliving high-school memories past, but you’re reliving the collective high school memories of an entire generation of Americans. To those of us who lived through it, this is what a school library looks like, this is what happens at the Von Steuben Day Parade (that’s right, Von Steuben Day), and this is every high school boy’s dream girl.