Agate Gal (who has a son, I don’t) wrote much more coherently about the Steubenville rape situation than I did yesterday in my chaotic post. What am I writing about again? Rape? Or reminiscing about my childhood years…

AgateGal says what needs to be said. I am going to reminisce…

I can’t remember what subject my high school football coach taught as a teacher. I do think that there were probably situations where sports kids were passed even though they didn’t earn their grade. That was a bad thing then and I’m sure it still happens. I was mostly irritated that I didn’t get to be the object of adulation as a flute player. But people were not interested in classical flute players and I was not noticed at all. “It gets better”…

When I was in high school, The Commander was a home economics teacher there. Remember them? They taught cooking and sewing? Forgive me moooom! My mom created a class called “Child Care”. She contracted with some church or nursery school to let her high school students work with the young children in a day care / nursery school setting.

For whatever reason, a bunch of the senior football players took that class. To this day, I’m not sure if the coach encouraged them to take it or if they just wanted an easy A or what. I remember that those kids had a wonderful time interacting with young children in that class and my mom loved them.

I never took a class from my mother. I was on the “college track” and I was taking English and math and all that stuff and I didn’t “need” home-ec. Except I was already getting that stuff at home. Well, not the child-care stuff. I had to figger that stuff out on my own. And I did. …

I have to note that here on the Planet Ann Arbor, football players AND THEIR COACHES have been in COURT because of a big brawl that occurred during (?) a football game last fall. And yes, some of the coaches were fighting too. Nice going guys. Such good sportsmanship!

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