‘When School really began...’

In August of 1973 I began my career in education at Congress JH in Denton, Texas. I didn’t have a proverbial clue what I was to do except for being told I was to teach ninth grade (CVET) vocational social studies to kids who read on a second grade level… maybe.

I was told this following our first faculty meeting three days prior to the start of school. Our class met in a portable classroom 50 yards…