Matt Levesque:
CLASS OF 1977
Payson High SchoolClass of 1977
Payson, AZ
Zoe Barnum High SchoolClass of 9999
Eureka, CA
McHenry Community High SchoolClass of 1977
Mchenry, IL
Parkland Junior High SchoolClass of 1973
Mchenry, IL
Valley View Elementary SchoolClass of 1971
Mchenry, IL
Matt's Story
Life
Well, I've been kinda busy. Somehow I graduated from high school. Joined the Navy, traveled the world, blowing stuff up as I went. Got out of the Navy, traveled the world, blowing stuff up as I went. Got married, stopped blowing stuff up, had kids, became a salesman, got divorced, went back to school, got a degree in Engish (with honors) so I could teach high school, but that didn't work. So I went back to blowing stuff up!
(update 2005) Then I went back to finish my credential, completed my credential and to celebrateÃÂwent out and blew stuff up. So now I am in limbo. I blow stuff up and substitute teach. Well actually I tell stories about blowing stuff up. Next update will be about how I got a job teaching highschool for way less than I make blowin' stuff up.
(update 2007) Well I got the job teaching English for way less than I received for "blowin' stuff up!" It only seems fair that I would get a job teaching at a continuation high school where the students are just as obnoxious as was as a high school student. Seriously I am very happy with the job, but there is a little part of me that wants to go to Iraq and make $25K a month "blowin stuff up." Seriously I won't go. Not because of the danger, but because I am philosophically opposed to what we are doing in Iraq.
(update 2008) Well we did so good raising test scores that they cut staff and raised class sizes, which means --guess what? I am back to blowin' stuff up! Oh and I got another divorce. That's what I get for getting married to a girl half (well almost half) my age.
(update 2012) Me, Vice Principal of a high school. LOL!
School
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start with the easy part. Mr. Vick was my most favored teacher. He was my best teacher, although I don't remember anything he taught, except that one day he taught us (unintentionally) how to swear. Thank god for the jocks passing foul notes into Al Shiya's freshman English class. Ironically I would retake freshman English as a senior because I failed freshman Enlish, only to later become a teacher of English.
College
Yeah, I went. It was easy--really, really easy. It is amazing what one can do when one is focused, or maybe after EOD school anything is easy.
It was a lot of fun being almost 40, looking younger than that and being turned loose on a college campus.
Workplace
I (was, see update below) doing project management for UXO (unexploded ordnance) clean-ups. It allows me to travel and pays the bills. I still plan on taking a huge paycut and teaching high school English someday. (Yeah Mr. Vick!)
Update March of 2007
As I near the end of my second year of teaching, it is about time to update my bio. As I speculated, I quit my lucrative career blowing stuff up and took a $50,000 a year pay cut to teach English at Zoe Barnum High School. It is a continuation high school located in Eureka, California. The students are pretty much like I was except they attend school more often and get better grades.
A funny thing though, my high school transcript helped me get into Humboldt State University. Because Payson graded backwards, my 3.3975 GPA looked good. I have my transcript framed and hanging in my classroom and I failed 13 classes! How in the world did I graduate. Man, they must have wanted me out of there bad.
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