The Howard Payne University Yellow Jacket (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 7, Ed. 1, Friday, October 19, 1979 Page: 3 of 4
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'School days' just beginning for 3 HP grads
ByMedeNlx
Editor
So you think all your
problems in the classroom will
be over when your days in
college are ended? What if you
went straight back to the
classroom without so much as
breather as three May 1979
Howard Payne graduates hae
done in Bangs Texas?
Andrea Akins Jim Alexander
and Joey Posey shared some of
the disappointments and joys of
their teaching experiences this
fall with prospective teachers at
last Thursday's meeting of the
Texas Student Education
Association.
Akins teaches 9th grade
English and 7th grade reading
Alexander is the band director
and Posey teaches third grade.
Absences encounters with
parents irresponsibility
discipline and job satisfaction
Freshman
enjoys
"beng
a clown'
By Claudia Lopez
Staff Writer
"Making people laugh and
seeing children happy is the
main reason that I became a
clown" said Kim Lott a fresh-
man from Gillette Wyoming.
Kim started performing as a
clown during her senior year in
high school in the Gillette
Junior Miss Pageant.
"Junior Miss has several ob-
jectives" explained Kim.
"They are to recognize reward
and encourage excellence in
youth and to provide a means
through which young people can
communicate their hopes and
opinions."
In the pageant Kim presented
a clown's interpretation of the
song "Send in the Clowns."
When asked how she felt when
she performed for the first time
in front of an audience she
replied "I was scared to death.
I thoughtthat people were going
to think that sitting in front of a
mirror putting on clown
makeup and singing was going
to be about the dumbest thing
that they had ever seen but
they didn't and that gave me the
strenght and courage to get
back on stage."
Kim doesn't have a goal to
become a famous or
professional clown but only
wants to do it for fun and to
make people happy.
were some of the topics they
discussed.
Each one said they had
problems with absences
Akins said
one mother called and asked her
not to give her daughter
homework because the
daughter had time only for
Bible study and chores after
school.
Posey had a problem with a
mother who had just moved to
Bangs and tried to get away with
putting her twin girls into third
grade when they were actually
supposed to be repeating the
second. The two had had several
talks about the girls'
capabilities and Posey said
"She came in one day and I
thought I was really in trouble.
But she told me I was right
about the things I had said
about the girls. That made me
feel good."
"Even the best kids talk"
Akins says. "Irresponsibility is
a problem they don't bring
pens or other materials to
class."
Posey said she solved this
problem by selling pencils to
her class. "I gave away too
many at the start of school and
it was getting expensive."
Alexander has different
problems since he is band
director. He started at Bangs
last March after the other band
director left. Alexander said the
old band director had chosen
contest music much too hard
and the contest was only three
weeks away when Alexander
took over. As he expected they
received a four rating which is
the next to the lowest score
given.
He is in the process of
building the band up. "It's not
the 'in' thing to be in Bangs" he
said. He hopes new uniforms
will arrive soon enough for his
band to march in the HP
Homecoming parade.
"I have a luxurv thnt mnsl
teachers don't have. I don't have exPressivc Gesture. "Some days
to have a kid in band unless I I go home and say 'Wow! This
their jobs and all agreed it was
worth it .
Alexander said as he raised
his arms over his head in an
want him."
As for discipline all con-
curred that the school ad-
ministrators in Bangs will back
up a teacher. Akins says she
only has a few troublemakers.
Posey says Howard Payne
prepared her well for teaching.
"There wasn't anything I
couldn't use" she says. She has
elementary and kindergarten
certification but now says she
wouldn't teach anything lower
than third grade. "I love it
they can read instructions and
go to the bathroom by them-
selves." These three obviously love
is great!' Then there are other
days I wish I had practiced
harder so I could have joined
the (musicians') union in Fort
Worth."
Akins says "I enjoy it but I
try to give the kids more than
just material out of the book
You have to give yourself."
Posey summed up what the
contentment of a teacher must
be like by saying "The
satisfaction is when you stay at
school until you are through at 9
p.m. at night and go home and
know your job is done."
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