Friday. The continuation high school. Technically, the class was woodshop, but due to safety concerns, we were in the teacher's other classroom where he teaches graphic arts.
I don't know why the topic of prom came up other than they do start talking about it as early as October.
Cole: "Are they going to have a DJ?"
Wanda: "Yes. Me. I'm going to DJ prom."
Cole: "Oh, well, then I'm not going..."
And the rest of the class erupted in laughter.
Deep sigh.
Cole: "There'll be like eleven, twelve people there..."
Yeah, I don't think so.
Prom is popular. If it wasn't, they would have stopped having it by now. There'll be a crowd. And the way Wanda talked, it sounds like she's a professional DJ. I'm sure she knows what she's doing.
Kids are cruel. And I imagine Cole will be eating his words.
Okay, please explain why there will not be a lot of kids at prom? Also, what do you do as a sub in woodshop? Graphics would be one I could teach, or somewhat. Graphics in my school (YEARS AGO) was teaching the print shop skills. I think now it prob leans more to the actual setting up the format for the piece being printed, course what do I know, not been in a graphics class.....well for YEARS! Crap there is that word again! lol...Last time 1978! In graphics for me it was learning to set type the old fashion way, pieces of metal type from a type tray. Then printing it on a platen press. From there I worked in the dark room learning to shot film and develope by hand in the trays. From there, running a press. I was elected to go to the VICA contest. VICA - Vocational Industrial Clubs of America. Do they still have that I wonder. Course, I did not do so well, I do not work well under stress. Oh well, I got off topic there!! lol
ReplyDeleteOkay, let me take this one by one...
Delete1. It's a small school, but they were joking. There'll be more students at prom than that. They were just saying the girl was going to chase them away, but I highly, highly doubt that.
2. They can't do woodshop, so that day they were to watch videos of people demonstrating how to build various stuff. (It's a safety thing. I'd need the proper training to let them use the equipment.)
3. They still have T-shirt presses and darkrooms and such for graphic arts. They study stuff in books and online, but more of the printing stuff is computer-based. (Not this school, but another has a graphic arts room with all the equipment.)
4. There is something like that called Skills USA. The CTE teachers are getting some kiddos prepped for that right now. The competitions are soon.
Yes, I knew that you could not let the kids on the equipment, something went wrong that would be really bad. I just was not sure as a sub what you could have the kids doing. I did not think about their being videos about teaching woodshop. Have no clue why I did not think of that. Thanks for answering my quesitons.
DeleteAt the middle school when I teach shop, the students get on computers and answer book questions. The videos were new to me, too.
DeleteSounds like he was just making a joke to me.
ReplyDeleteHe was.
DeleteGood idea to sub in a different room!
ReplyDeleteI don't know how proms are done now, but back when I was a senior ours was held in a ball room at a fancy hotel in San Francisco! They made it VERY clear none of us were to try to rent a room for the night! There was a live band. Oh, I do feel my age now. This was 1975. Tickets were hand-painted with rainbows, $15 a couple. Rainbows because the theme was "Color My World" after the song. I still have the ticket.
They still do it at hotels in the area. Different schools in the district have gone on the Queen Mary (years ago now as the ship is in disrepair) and to the Disneyland Hotel. They've also gone to Knott's Berry Farm, although not the continuation high school (and not for prom) as they're really not big enough to have enough attending.
DeleteProm was a huge thing around here when my kids were growing up. I spent a fortune on prom dresses.
ReplyDeleteThere's a whole thing where girls can get gently used prom dresses from various outlets. Some students don't have the spending power of others.
DeleteWell, somebody's definitely not getting an invite to prom.
ReplyDeleteIn Pretty in Pink, when Annie Potts talks about how you "have" to go, how her friend missed it and now realizes that's the thing that's missing from her life... I never understood that. It always seemed like an unnecessary event to me... and yet I went. Junior and Senior year.
ReplyDeleteI probably would have regretted not going. Memories.
I didn't go and I don't regret not going. Unnecessary? I don't know. I do know that the seniors of 2020 were pretty upset when all their spring events got cancelled.
DeleteI regret going, and the same goes for my tenth year high school reunion. Nothing changed and all the kids/adults were/are jerks. People in general suck. :P
DeleteI have not been to a single reunion, and the 20 year one was minutes from my house.
DeleteWe dont have proms here in India
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure if that's a good thing or not. It might be.
DeleteI eldest will have his first official dance next year. Let's see how he feels about it.
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