I hopped over to my high school website, and the school is about the same size (senior class has 62 students) with an 87% graduation rate, but I didn’t recognize any of the teachers, not the names, not the faces. I suspect most are local (that’s the way it works, plus the family names are a clue), but all of them are younger than I am, enough that I don’t even remember them from school.
Actually, I did recognize one, but on the band website. He’s retired, but at least he’s there. And the home ec (yeah, yeah, whatever the euphemism was) teacher’s last name was the same as the home ec teacher when I was in school. I suspect perhaps her daughter.
Sadly, there was no page of retired teachers. Somebody should do something about that.
I see that the FFA and FCA are still there, but what happened to the NHS and FHA? I also see that there are women in the FFA now. There weren’t when I was in school. But the FFA seems to be going strong.
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If “FHA” is Future Homemakers of America, it may have morphed at your old school into FCCLA, which stands for something more politically-correct than “homemaker” but I can never remember exactly what it is.
The local high school here has an FCCLA club.
RWP, go back to your high school website and see if they have a listing for faculty and admin. I graduated in 1983 with a graduating clas of ~310 students. We had a principal and one vice-principal. That was it. Of course we had a couple of guidance counselors and there were admin secretaries, but not scores of them.
When I visited my HS website a while back, there are now a couple of principals, a multitude of vice-principals for different things, there are deans, assistant deans, guidance counselors, career counselors, life counselors, speech counselors, et al. Shit, there are so many superfluous admin positions that I am amazed…or aghast. The union has ensured a steady growth of “gimme” jobs that don’t have a damned thing to do with education.