Zemmer Jr. High and Hahn Middle school in Lapeer and neighboring Davidson, Michigan, also hosted a friendly competition between schools to get their students to rally their families to wake up early on a Saturday and get outside for some fresh air (and water, apparently it rained!)... They have started an annual spring tournament that their students will surely look forward to each spring. Will Lapeer wind back the trophy next year???
Have you used friendly competition to spark interest in your anglers and get them to share their new interest with more students??? Tell us your story.
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Our school went to a camp to study water related subjects. It was mostly science related but the art department, english and math teachers did related things. I taught the kids to cast and talked and demonstrated fly fishing and carp fishing. All the kids in the building had a chance to go though the program sometime during the week. We had over 470 kids take part.
I realize that this wasn't a contest between schools, but it was covered by the areas biggest TV station.
I posted on the carp fishing website that I take part in also. As a result, a company is sending some carp related "goodies." And, CAG (Carp Angliers Group) is requesting pictures and information for an article in their club magazine.
When you do things that encourage kids to be active outdoors people take notice. There are a lot of people and will help you do that type of thing.
The construction people used an electric saw to cut the steel beams between the doors in the hallway at school. They started rolling anything out that wasn't bolted down as a few things that were. In the middle of the afternoon there was an announcement that the building was closing at 4 pm and we would not be allowed back in (for at least a year). Anything left behind in the rooms was either going to be sold at the sale the next day or put in the trash. Everything that we had boxed up for next year was being shipped to the new building for storage.
Needless to say, not a good way to end the school year. Not a good way to end a teaching career either.
The district offered us old timers $50,000 to get out of the business, I turned in my paper work a few hours ago.
I have very few plans for the future. Shelly has already hit me up to "coach" her kids on fishing. I assume that whom ever takes my place will need some help getting started, if nothing else they need to find the equipment that I have stored or shipped out.
Anyway, they say everyone has a price, I've loved working with kids all these years, I guess I need to move on to a new way of doing that.
That is where this net-working between schools and people comes in. There has to be some constructive things to do with kids out there, regardless of the economy andsomeone I know will fill me in on where that is.
The Flint school system (25 miles from here) has some of the roughest schools in the United States. I am guessing they need subs that can work with problem students. Working with the tough kids has always been my specialty. Maybe I can get some of the gang-bangers into fishing.
A student that I had 30 years ago, recently offered me a job guarding New Orleans. I turned him down. Packing a gun and pushing people around has never been my style.
Thinking back, I remember the day that I took a student into my office that was carrying a 357 Mag. He and I spent all afternoon alone together. This was to be his last day of school. (The Principal
had given him the choice of being searched or spending the afternoon with me and never returning to school. It is kind of a long story.) Anyway, isolated from the rest of the building and in a situation like that, a teacher can really get to know a student. Nothing like tension and emotion to break down the walls that separate people.
Anyway, that is the type of job I am looking for during my retirement. Working with the tough kids. Getting to know them better. Getting them to think a little differently about life. If you know of a openning like that, let me know.
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