As school moves to a new year and a new set of craziness and challenges, you can see the newspapers full of the opinions on public education. Some find it to be a noble profession – – working for the love of children and the future of our country – – others site public eduation as the reason that they would want to drive off the edge of a bridge. Both are true, I suppose, but on a much more simple level, I find teaching to be just a bit creepy. Stay with me. When the majority of the world heads off the to work world they are with a group of people that age along with them. Year by year, everyone gets just a bit greyed, just a bit more wrinkled, a bit closer to the faded blush of fall.
But every year I head off to school, they have never grown older. They have been sixteen and seventeen for over 23 years. They never age. They are stuck in time. These little “Dorian Grays” are just plain spooky; something in those lunch boxes contains a bit of that Fountain of Youth. And to be around them TRULY makes me feel old. As they walk down the halls and give me that prefunctory, “Hello, Mr. Higgins”, I can sense under their breath their derision and smugness in owning the truth that they are evergreen – – while I am ultimately going step-by-step toward that bright academic light in the distance – – beckoning me to my last class.
Clearly they have sold their soul to the devil. How else is one promised youth forever.
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