Willard Blanchard:
CLASS OF 1967
Kecoughtan High SchoolClass of 1967
Hampton, VA
Willard's Story
Slade - how I got in the yearbook as "Willard" is actually quite annoying!
30+ years in education - 23+ as a teacher. The last year I taught ( 5 years ago ), a sweet kid said, " Mr. B, we keep you young and make you old at the same time." Truer words were never spoken. Actually, I would have continued teaching until they carried me out, but as a Special Educator I had, for all practical purposes, 2 full-time jobs. Gave up the money and most of the responsibility at the same time - a fair trade since No ...Expand for more
Child Left Behind continues to make both jobs almost impossible if you care about kids. I still get to hang out with them as a Para working with a great team, and I still get to make a positive difference - but at 3:30, no BS meetings - and I don't have to deal with adults who should know better. Funny, as one of the oldest people still working in my middle school, I may be one of the few who remember clearly what it was like to be stuck in the middle. Disturbed kids respond to me because I'm one of them.
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