{"id":2200,"date":"2019-08-20T07:39:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T11:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=2200"},"modified":"2019-08-20T07:44:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T11:44:06","slug":"the-first-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2019\/08\/20\/the-first-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2204\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2019\/08\/20\/the-first-day\/school-bus\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/school-bus.jpeg?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,168\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"school-bus\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/school-bus.jpeg?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/school-bus.jpeg?resize=165%2C92&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2204\" width=\"165\" height=\"92\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I just heard the school bus go by again.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s the first day of school.&nbsp;&nbsp;That was an important day in my life for a very long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Schools and Colleges&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;For the first thirteen years, it meant new teachers and classrooms, and seeing old friends.&nbsp;&nbsp;Whether it was Clifton School in Cincinnati, Van Buren Junior High in Kettering, or Wyoming High School back in Cincinnati, the first day was always an important one.&nbsp;&nbsp;For me, it was usually a good day, one that I looked forward to:&nbsp;&nbsp;even that first day in a brand new high school in Wyoming. It\u2019s a scary things to do, walking into a high school in a small town as the \u201cnew kid\u201d sophomore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then for the next four years, the first day of school was at Denison University.&nbsp;&nbsp;That first day of college was scary too, especially when I was walking back to my dorm room with a couple hundred pages of reading to do.&nbsp;&nbsp;But, after some struggles, I got the hang of college, learned a lot, and had a great time.&nbsp;&nbsp;Denison let me \u201ctry on\u201d my life, from running political campaigns to teaching in public school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It\u2019s My Job<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Then the first day of school became my job.&nbsp;&nbsp;With one year\u2019s exception, from 1978 until 2014 the first day of school was always a new beginning.&nbsp;&nbsp;No matter how bad or good the last year was, whether I succeeded in getting those students to buy into my class and learn or not, the first day was always starting over.&nbsp;It was one of the best parts of being a public schoolteacher; every Day One was a new beginning, and a new test.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is as good as it gets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That was written on that antique communications device I used in my 28 years in the classroom.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was called a black board, using a&nbsp;soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock to leave tracks on a dark smooth surface.&nbsp;&nbsp;The first class discussion:&nbsp;&nbsp;what does that mean?&nbsp;&nbsp;It was the first day of senior year, is that what\u2019s so good?&nbsp;&nbsp;We were going to talk about government and life and what happened in our town and the world, is that it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or was it the reality that my handwriting on the board was really, really bad.&nbsp;&nbsp;It wasn\u2019t going to get any better \u2013 \u201cthis is as good as it gets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Today they don\u2019t use black boards, someone might be allergic to the dust.&nbsp;You can\u2019t find them anyway, every class has a \u201cdry erase\u201d board, and most have a computer driven \u201csmart board.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;Try being left handed with a dry erase marker \u2013 it takes \u201cwriting gymnastics\u201d not to erase everything you write.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Winning their Minds<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Those twenty-five or thirty kids in first period didn\u2019t care whether I got any sleep the night before, or how last year went.&nbsp;&nbsp;They were, for what might be a brief moment, open to learning. In forty minutes, could I get them to want to be up at 7:22 in the morning, sitting in a freezing cold room with no windows?&nbsp;&nbsp;Could I convince them that American Government was something worth knowing, something they would want to participate in?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I was good, if I found the \u201ckey\u201d to their interest, I could get them walking out of class with a little surprise:&nbsp;&nbsp;they wanted to come back.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I could fill the \u201csenior lunch room\u201d with the issues we discussed in class that morning.&nbsp;&nbsp;And when first period filed out, those seats were quickly filled with second period.&nbsp;I began again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For parts of four decades the first day of school welcomed students into my domain, my classroom.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Being the Dean<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I made a big change; I became the Dean of Students at the high school.&nbsp;&nbsp;There was no longer \u201cmy classroom.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;Instead it was \u201cour school,\u201d a team of three administrators trying to make it a good place to learn.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was no longer 150 kids a day, it was 1200, most of them never interacting with me more than a nod and a wave.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But then there were \u201cmy kids,\u201d our \u201cfrequent flyers.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;They were \u201csent to the office\u201d all the time.&nbsp;&nbsp;I got to know them, their parents, their hopes and their problems.&nbsp;&nbsp;I counseled, punished, and some got suspended.&nbsp;&nbsp;A few required the sheriffs department, handcuffed privately in my office and slipped out the side door.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t like goodbyes, and high school graduation ceremonies are one really long, usually hot, goodbye.&nbsp;&nbsp;But one of the good parts of the \u201cDean\u201d job was getting to congratulate kids as they stepped up to the stage to get their diploma.&nbsp;We took particular pride in the \u201cfrequent flyers\u201d that made it to graduation, celebrating our shared success in their making it \u201cacross the stage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re the \u201cdiscipline\u201d guy in a high school, eight years is a long, long time.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s not so much the job itself; you can find a lot of joy in helping kids grow.&nbsp;&nbsp;But your always making some kid mad.&nbsp;&nbsp;And the teacher that sent them wants them killed, so you\u2019re probably making them mad as well.&nbsp;&nbsp;And if not that, there are always the parents who think their kid \u201ccouldn\u2019t have done that.\u201d&nbsp;After a few years, all of that adds up, and it\u2019s time to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So my last \u201cfirst day\u201d was in August of 2013.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Back Again?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I retired from teaching and \u201cDeaning\u201d in June of 2014.&nbsp;&nbsp;So here I am, five years later, thinking about going back into a classroom \u2013 who\u2019d believe it \u2013 a substitute teacher?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019d think after forty years I\u2019d have it down.&nbsp;&nbsp;But there\u2019s another \u201cfirst day\u201d out there again.&nbsp;&nbsp;I\u2019m nervous, a little excited, and dismayed at getting up at five in the morning.&nbsp;&nbsp;But the kids in the class won\u2019t care.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is as good as it gets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just heard the school bus go by again.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s the first day of school.&nbsp;&nbsp;That was an important day in my life for a very long time. 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