Continuing with the focus on things that people don’t realize I can no longer do.
I miss having my finger on the music pulse while teaching middle school students.
During my first year teaching, it was the very beginning of, the ”Justin Bieber Mania” I remember grading papers in my classroom while a school dance was taking place and I could never forget the middle school girls’ screams that accompanied the beginning of that, “Baby” song.
Once I became the Reading Specialist, after a few years, my classroom changed to being adjacent to the cafeteria where the students’ physical education classes took place. Mr. Curl always played music! I always knew which songs my students liked and overtime, I liked them too!
i’ve recently been seeing this commercial over and over again:
I really liked this song but I didn’t know who sang it. It wasn’t until I saw that the musical artist, “Lizzo” took a break from her tour to pack lunches for firefighters and people displaced in Australia.
I didn’t know who she was so I looked it up. She is the one singing in the GrubHub commercial!!! I would’ve known that if I was still teaching.
I miss teaching for so many more reasons than, “Knowing what the kids are listening to” but that’s one thing that I can admit without crying.