Still trying to learn how to add, modify information on some of my pages. I did add a few more pictures to that tab on the home page along with learning how to add captions to photos.  So, that is pretty cool and will be adding more photos related to the book that I did not include in it when published because of the cost.  Trying to find out how to a add writings to some of my pages that are different than a blog like the excerpts from my books to add to that page.

On a more personal note, school will be out in 1 week and hard to believe that I will be completing my 41rst year in the education business. Seems like a few weeks ago I was just starting my career in late January of 1976 at Pace High School in Santa Rosa county when that school only had about 400 students in it. It probably has 1600 or more students now.

I replaced a teacher because the students had made it so hard on him that he quit right after the Christmas break. It was a class for lower achieving students (may have been a special education class) and I spent the rest of that year trying to get the class under control and doing a lot of hands on work with them. We helped to build sidewalks, plant grass around the buildings, re-grass the football field and working in a green house growing vegetable plants for sale to the local folks. It was a good thing I had been raised on a farm and knew how to work with tools like shovels, hoes, and rakes and had a pretty good understanding of growing plants.

During this semester way back in 1976, another coach and me caught a couple of kids down in the greenhouse during lunch time smoking some marijuana. Can still remember when we got the evidence, it was 3 joints in bright yellow, orange and green rolling papers. Got the evidence from a girl who had been passed the joints by her boyfriend and when he looked back and saw that I had them in my hand, he hit the door in the front hall of the school, ran all the way through the hall to the other end of the hall, ran out the door and ran into the woods. He took off like Moody’s goose and was gone! Was pretty funny how fast he left the area. Was the first of many times in these 41 years of catching students with some type of contraband.