Spirk (with a small dose of Pinto)

Oh. “The other person.” That means they still hadn’t hired the third person. Well, I don’t blame you. I always LOVED working at school when the kids weren’t there, or even when the other subjects’ teachers were gone to various meetings across the district. I could get so much done and it was so peaceful. I always thought (jokingly maybe?) that teaching would be a blast if it wasn’t for all those kids! ha I can’t complain though – I always had the kids who were the best of the best.

Once at our big music convention, all 20,000 of us (minus the drunk band directors – you often didn’t see them) (I’m NOT kidding – they’d immediately drive across the border and bring back huge bottles of whatever their alcohol preference was – once I saw my old music teacher from 1970 who taught mostly band, who I hadn’t seen in decades and it wasn’t 5 minutes before he invited me to this big naked drinking party the band directors have every year at the huge motel across from the convention center) – (tmi? Sorry) (NO I DIDN’T GO – I don’t look good naked. Trust me. my self esteem didn’t need yet another hit) (I’m JOKING – I wouldn’t go. I don’t like to drink) (I”M JOKING – I wouldn’t go. I couldn’t believe his nerve to not see me in decades and immediately invite me to the thing – band directors are just different animals. The choir directors dressed up, dresses, ties, went to everything. Orch directors in pants, went to everything – and there just aren’t many of them anyway. Band directors? When you DO see them they’re in cutoffs and drunk and NOT at the meetings.)

Anyhoo – man, was THAT rabbit chasing. I gotta get out of the house more. I mean, when we’re allowed out of our houses.

So they always announce how kids in the all-state orchestras and choirs and bands have much higher SAT scores – that music makes you smarter. I contend that’s a fallacy – only the smartest kids make all-state.. There are lots of lower scoring musician kids. So apples and oranges.

But this one does count. School districts have to report how many kids (and embarrassingly, of all ethic groups and genders) have detentions and suspensions.

Music kids have MUCH lower numbers of those. But this one year, they failed to mention orchestra and people complained during the meeting that they left them out.

And they said, “No, we didn’t. There WEREN’T any suspensions of orch kids in Texas last year.”

All that is to say, yeah, if I were you, I’d MUCH rather work with everyone else gone. I’ve been there.

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