From the Shed

Written by David Everett

LET’S GO BACK TO THE FUTURE - OR NOT

Ido remember my school years fondly but have no great desire to go back to them. Not because they were particularly difficult or troubled, just that that was then and this is now. Certainly there are the occasional times when I think about what it would be like going back knowing what I do now, and the difference to my learning it would have made. For a start, understanding and being able to moderate a few of my behaviours would have been greatly appreciated by a couple of my teachers. I also might have held a girlfriend for longer than a few weeks. I wasn’t a ‘bad’ boyfriend as I recall, just that after I got a girlfriend I didn’t actually know what to do from there, so it would fizzle into ‘hi, how are you doing’, or that great line of ‘we are better as friends’. I came out of high school with an exit score, that at the time, couldn’t even get my toe into TAFE. I hadn’t a clue of what I wanted to do. Happily, that came in time. It wasn’t that I wasn’t smart enough to succeed as

I’ve had some pearler testing results since then. Rather, it was that if I couldn’t see the application of the learning then I wasn’t engaged. Without a direction there wasn’t a lot I could apply the learning to. Some subjects like Maths In Society clicked. I loved it and am still using it to this day. My maths teacher Miss Meehan was a key element in that subject. She was fun, worked hard to engage us and ignored my mate and I sneakily eating biscuits from our pencil cases. If I was the sort to crush on a teacher I would have been head over heels for that woman. I ran into her a few years later when we both had a child learning to swim and discovered that was her first year out. A couple of kids eating discretely in class was the least of her worries so she just ignored it. Damn those teachers were smarter than we ever gave them credit for. Other great teachers were my parents, and I still hold true to the prime lesson they gave me; do the subjects you enjoy, and if you need more education later, then you can do it then.

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