Skip to main content

Humprhey

     If I had not decided to attend church at Humphrey, instead of Lodge Corner, for most Sundays in May 2004, I most likely would have not met Mr Henley. As things turned out, I was pumped about teaching upper-level math; but I gradually found Spanish to be more of a downer compared to Marvell. In the second half of the year, I feel that my upcoming marriage and impeding closure of the school caused things to end the way that they did. Maybe I shouldn't have announced about marrying Pat and moving across the river; or maybe I should have gotten Pat to join me in the Razorback State (later on I did find out that I would have been recommended for 2005-06 in De Witt (who knows, but I may have had a chance to teach Advanced Placement and/or dual enrollment classes at De Witt High School). Part of me also feels that things took a downward spiral due to Henley wanting to be a superintendent again--not a combination principal/assistant superintendent. He did take a superintendent's position at a district in another part of Arkansas.

     NOTEWORTHY:  While in Humphrey, then-Governor Mike Huckabee approved a big pay raise for teachers that raised my annual salary from $28,450 to $30,450. Little did I know then that the lack of morale my last few months there would be duplicated thirteen years later at Strider.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Hidden Lake

     I felt that I let emotion guide me to Hidden Lake. All that mattered was being much closer to Karyn than I had been for a year after she moved to Alabama. If only I knew about the special needs of those students (Oppositional Defiant Disorder) and the stress they endured. Given that my engagement ended nine months after settling in what I thought was going to be my long term home, I wonder if I should have stayed in San Antonio a little longer and waited for a better overall opportunity. But maybe this was a part of the journey I had to take to where I am in the late summer/early fall of 2018.      NOTEWORTHY:  A year after breaking up with Karyn, I reconnected with her and was hoping that we would have another opportunity to share our lives with each other--especially as she was moving to North Carolina (and she was settling down about two hours east of where I was living). I later found out she got married; at the time I was bitter about it. L...
Post a Comment
Read more

Strider 2.0

     About a week after Kelvin was named Headmaster at Strider, he was itching to get me there to teach. At first he said that I would be unable to live on campus, but I didn't know that in a few weeks Pat and I had to return to Grenada. As she resigned from Sitel, I also had to keep working at Sprint Mart once we moved. I thought this would work out, but how things ended up at Strider and the attitudes of Sprint Mart management in Grenada put a quick end to that.      The only apprehension I felt after talking to Kelvin was that there were still board members still present from the Bradshaw regime that would veto my return. However, that was not the case. It was also good to know that the Board in place was wanting a more intentional Christian emphasis this time around. But there were still traces of the long-time "Free State" mentality such as teachers and parents smoking within plain view of students. By Christmas I was more concerened that there were f...
Post a Comment
Read more