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Agreed with Bulldogs.... so many people are double dipping and making all kinds of money when you have recent college grads that can’t find a job because people who are already drawing a pension can come back and make boat loads of money and the majority of them aren’t effective in their jobs. Education has changed ALOT even since I’ve been out of college, can you imagine what they were taught 30+ years ago?

We teach with so many different strategies these days. Not just read the material and memorize, recite/answer, etc.. 'Think outside the box'...mastery learners, interpersonal learning, etc.. For example, you may go in on Monday and do a bell ringer, making up 3 or 4 metaphors for a topic, real quick, 5 minutes to get it done, the next day it may simply be write your definition of that topic...I don't know which way was better, 30 years ago, or today. I do know we are taught, to teach, different ways/methods so ALL kids in the class hopefully learn the material. Not really an easy thing to do, even for young, or 'youngish' teachers, and almost impossible for older teachers, 'old school' teachers are feeling more and more out of place and you can tell. Most are just subbing these days, their 100 days if they can get 'em, if they can't get their 100 days in my county, they don't worry about it too much. The older folks are truly wanting to be retired around here. Coaching...whole other story. Our head coach is 43 years old but has taught over 20 years. But coach Stonebraker has enough energy for a 20 year old man, and there's no way he can sit around and not coach after he is able to retire, he'd go nuts. I dare say there is not another coach in the state with his energy.